History of Ideas Q and A
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (also known as the Second Discourse) tells the story of all human history to answer one simple question: how did we end up in such an unequal world? David explores the step...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (also known as the Second Discourse) tells the story of all human history to answer one simple question: how did we end up in such an unequal world? David explores the steps Rousseau traces in the fall of humankind and asks whether this is a radical alternative to the vision offered by Hobbes or just a variant on it. Is Rousseau really such a nice philosopher? Free online version of text Recommended version to purchase Going deeper… Leo Damrosch, Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005) David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Rousseau’s Dog (2007) Pankaj Mishra, ‘How Rousseau predicted Trump’, The New Yorker (2016) (Audio) In Our Time , The Social Contract Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Published Feb 2, 2021 and 47:55 long