Rousseau, the anticosmopolitan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684857 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helena Rosenblatt (0000-0001-8746-1544, Helena Rosenblatt is professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. She is the author of “Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749–1762” (1997) and the forthcoming “Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion.”, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 137 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 59-67 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed.2008.137.3.59 |
| OpenAlex | W2020286904 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Rousseau's repeated criticisms of the Enlightenment's ideal of cosmopolitanism has led to his thought being characterized as 'anticosmopolitan'. His work abounds in denunciations of the ideals of equality of treatment and universal rights supported by his contemporaries. Moreover, his liking of solitude, introspection and socialization in small circles and his preference for patriotism over equity among all men seem to set him up as the counterpoint of the universalism his contemporaries defended. However, a deeper insight into the work of the author of The Reveries of the Solitary Walker shows that, far from being incompatible with true cosmopolitanism, the moral principles that Rousseau praised are the proper conditions to develop humanitarianism, leading to universalism – in fact a form of cosmopolitanism
Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Philosophy · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |