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Fugitive Rousseau : slavery, primitivism, and political freedom
- Title
- Fugitive Rousseau : slavery, primitivism, and political freedom / Jimmy Casas Klausen.
- Author
- Klausen, Jimmy Casas, 1976-
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 333 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist who was uncritically preoccupied with "noble savages" and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau demonstrates why these charges are wrong and argues that a fresh, "fugitive" perspective on political freedom is bound up with the themes of primitivism and slavery in Rousseau's political theory. 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"--
- Series Statement
- Just ideas : transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thought
- Uniform Title
- Just ideas.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Slavery -- Displacements -- ... and Condensations -- Freedom? -- Cosmopolitanism -- Nativism -- Fugitive Freedom -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-4382
- ISBN
- 9780823257294 (hardback)
- 0823257290 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013035840
- 40023447290
- OCLC
- 863379973
- Author
- Klausen, Jimmy Casas, 1976-
- Title
- Fugitive Rousseau : slavery, primitivism, and political freedom / Jimmy Casas Klausen.
- Publisher
- New York : Fordham University Press, [2014]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Just ideas : transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thoughtJust ideas.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40023447290
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-4382