Description: Further DetailsTitle: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-LoveCondition: NewSubtitle: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for RecognitionISBN-10: 0199592055EAN: 9780199592050ISBN: 9780199592050Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/01/2010Description: This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour propre ) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts. Amour propre is the passion that drives human individuals to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or love--the recognition --of their fellow beings. Neuhouser reconstructs Rousseau's understanding of what the drive for recognition is, why it is so problematic, and how its presence opens up far-reaching developmental possibilities for creatures that possess it. One of Rousseau's central theses is that amour propre in its corrupted, manifestations--pride or vanity--is the principal source of an array of evils so widespread that they can easily appear to be necessary features of the human condition: enslavement, conflict, vice, misery, and self-estrangement. Yet Rousseau also argues that solving these problems depends not on suppressing or overcoming the drive for recognition but on cultivating it so that it contributes positively to the achievement of freedom, peace, virtue, happiness, and unalienated selfhood. Indeed, Rousseau goes so far as to claim that, despite its many dangers, the need for recognition is a condition of nearly everything that makes human life valuable and that elevates it above mere animal existence: rationality, morality, freedom--subjectivity itself--would be impossible for humans if it were not for amour propre and the relations to others it impels us to establish.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 157mmItem Width: 23mmAuthor: Frederick NeuhouserGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: HistoryItem Weight: 474gRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
Title: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
Subtitle: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition
ISBN-10: 0199592055
EAN: 9780199592050
ISBN: 9780199592050
Release Date: 07/01/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love : Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: European / French, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Personal Growth / Self-Esteem
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Author: Frederick Neuhouser
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Self-Help
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
