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OverviewRousseau'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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jared HolleyPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781399521154ISBN 10: 1399521152 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 30 September 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsHolley's account casts Rousseau as a modern and ""refined"" Epicurean. Drawing on a scholarly reconstruction of Eighteenth-century Epicureanism, his work seamlessly intertwines aesthetics and politics. Through a masterful examination of taste, it provides a fresh perspective on the perennial debate about the general will.--C�line Spector, Sorbonne University This is an important contribution to the understanding of Rousseau's paradoxes concerning the relations between happiness and virtue. Holley carefully reconstructs what Epicureanism meant to Rousseau and his contemporaries and shows how Rousseau's ""refined Epicureanism"" uses taste and judgment to mediate between pleasure and morality.--Christopher Kelly, Boston College "Holley's account casts Rousseau as a modern and ""refined"" Epicurean. Drawing on a scholarly reconstruction of Eighteenth-century Epicureanism, his work seamlessly intertwines aesthetics and politics. Through a masterful examination of taste, it provides a fresh perspective on the perennial debate about the general will.--C�line Spector, Sorbonne University This is an important contribution to the understanding of Rousseau's paradoxes concerning the relations between happiness and virtue. Holley carefully reconstructs what Epicureanism meant to Rousseau and his contemporaries and shows how Rousseau's ""refined Epicureanism"" uses taste and judgment to mediate between pleasure and morality.--Christopher Kelly, Boston College" Author InformationJared Holley is Lecturer in Political Theory at University of Edinburgh Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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