Fugitive Rousseau : Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom / Jimmy Casas Klausen.
Klausen, Jimmy Casas, author.
2014
JC179.R9 .K538 2014
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Title Fugitive Rousseau : Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom / Jimmy Casas Klausen.
Author Klausen, Jimmy Casas, author.
ISBN 9780823257324
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257324
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (356 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823257324 doi
Call Number JC179.R9 .K538 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.01
Summary Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with "noble savages" and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau's thought and argues that a fresh, "fugitive" perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau's treatments of primitivism and slavery.Rather than trace Rousseau's arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau's famous sentence "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" or wants to know how Rousseauian arguments can support a radical democratic politics of diversity, discontinuity, and exodus will find Fugitive Rousseau indispensable.
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Series Just Ideas
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Available in Other Form print 9780823267477
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Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Slavery
1. Displacements
2. . . . and Condensations
II Freedom?
3. Cosmopolitanism
4. Nativism
5. Fugitive Freedom
Afterword
Notes
Index

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