Rousseau’s Politics of Taste
by
Jared Holley
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1399521160
ISBN-13
9781399521161
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 31st, 2026
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
372 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Social & political philosophySocial and political philosophy
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Reinterprets Rousseau as a political thinker by reconstructing his Epicurean theory of taste
Rousseau’s Politics of Taste challenges the popular but partial pictures we have of Rousseau as an inconsistent ‘ancient’ utopian or a ‘modern’ abstract philosopher with a systematising spirit. Combining intellectual history and political theory, it reinterprets his understandings of pleasure and happiness, judgment and amour-propre, inequality, the general will and, above all, taste. Rousseau’s readers have long recognised the complex tensions in his thought. By reconstructing his theory of taste as a kind of modern Epicureanism, this book provides a way of articulating neglected patterns in those tensions and, a new understanding of what he was attempting to achieve with his political thought.
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