Description: On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life : Reflections on Rousseau's Rêveries in Two Books, Hardcover by Meier, Heinrich; Berman, Robert (TRN), ISBN 022607403X, ISBN-13 9780226074030, Brand New, Free shipping in the US On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's Rveries, the philosopher's most beautiful and daring work, as well as his last and least understood. Bringing to bear more than thirty years of study of Rousseau, Meier unfolds his stunningly original interpretation in two parts. The first part of On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life approaches the Rveries not as another autobiographical text in the tradition of the Confessions and the Dialogues, but as a reflection on the philosophic life and the distinctive happiness it provides. The second turns to a detailed analysis of a work referred to in the Rveries, the 'Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar," which triggered Rousseau's political persecution when it was originally published as part of mile. In his examination of this most controversial of Rousseau's writings, which aims to lay the foundations for a successful nonphilosophic life, Meier brings to light the differences between natural religion as expressed by the Vicar and Rousseau's natural theology. Together, the two reciprocally illuminating parts of this study provide an indispensable guide to Rousseau and to the understanding of the nature of the philosophic life. '[A] dense but precise and enthralling analysis.''New Yorker
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Book Title: On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life : Reflections on Roussea
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life : Reflections on Rousseau's Rveries in Two Books
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: European / French, History & Theory, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Political, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 22.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology
Author: Heinrich Meier
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
