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100			_aFranco, Paul
245			_aRousseau, Nietzsche, and the image of the human
260			_bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2021 _aChicago :
300			_axii, 169 p. ; _c24 cm
365			_b35.00 _cUSD _d85.90
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human Paul Franco explores the relationship between Nietzsche and Rousseau and their critique of modern life. Franco begins by arguing that "among philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche are perhaps the two most influential explorers and shapers of the moral and cultural imagination of late modernity." And yet Nietzsche was often highly critical of Rousseau. Indeed, their critiques of modern life differ in important respects. Rousseau focused on the growing political and economic inequality in modern society and proposed a more egalitarian politics. Nietzsche decried the inability of society to take account of the exceptional individual and found Rousseau's political ideas wrong-headed. It is Franco's objective to explore their critiques of the modern life they observed--in the mid 18th century of the French Enlightenment and the late 19th century of industrializing and increasingly secular and scientific Europe--and show how they differed and how the earlier thinker formed the basis of much of the later thinkers' ideas.
650			_aSelf
650			_aAltruism
650			_aBourgeois
650			_aConscience
650			_aDesires
650			_a Enlightenment
650			_aFreedom
650			_aGay Science
650			_aHappiness
650			_aIndividualism
650			_aLiberalism
650			_aMorality
650			_aNature
650			_aSelf-knowledge
650			_aTotalitarianism
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