Description: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition Author(s): Frederick Neuhouser Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199542673, 978-0199542673 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
Item Height: 241 mm
Item Width: 162 mm
Author: Frederick Neuhouser
Publication Name: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 604 g
Number of Pages: 292 Pages
