Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations

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  • Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations Book Detail

  • Author : John M. Warner
  • Release Date : 2016-03-23
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 260
  • ISBN 13 : 0271077239
  • File Size : 16,16 MB
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Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations by John M. Warner PDF Summary

Book Description: In this volume, John Warner grapples with one of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s chief preoccupations: the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. Not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, Warner argues, but he also believed it was fundamentally unsolvable—that social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. This engaging study is founded on two basic but important questions: what do we want out of human relationships, and are we able to achieve what we are after? Warner traces his answers through the contours of Rousseau’s thought on three distinct types of relationships—sexual love, friendship, and civil or political association—as well as alternate interpretations of Rousseau, such as that of the neo-Kantian Rawlsian school. The result is an insightful exploration of the way Rousseau inspires readers to imbue social relations with purpose and meaning, only to show the impossibility of reaching wholeness through such relationships. While Rousseau may raise our hopes only to dash them, Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations demonstrates that his ambitious failure offers unexpected insight into the human condition and into the limits of Rousseau’s critical act.

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