TY  - GEN
T1  - Rousseau’s Politics of Taste
A1  - Holley, Jared
LA  - eng
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2025
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-157880
AB  - 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.
KW  - Political Science
KW  - History & Theory
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political
KW  - Individual Philosophers
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPS Social & political philosophy
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy
ER  -