TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merja Kylmäkoski
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Virtue of the Citizen
T2  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Republicanism in the Eighteenth-Century French Context
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1092117
N2  - The author examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political thought from the angle of classical republicanism. To offer an account of Rousseau’s republicanism she explores his idea of the citizen and civic virtues. In addition, eighteenth-century conceptions of luxury and Rousseau’s ideas of the patriot and liberty are discussed. Rousseau’s republicanism is here considered to stem from his Genevan legacy and his ideas are seen as a critical response to the contemporary ascendancy of the Mandevillean idea of man, which emphasized the values and virtues attached to commerce.
LA  - English
ER  -