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- Title
Rousseau's three revolutions.
- Authors
Hanley, Ryan Patrick
- Abstract
Rousseau's relation to the French Revolution – and in particular his status as the Revolution's precursor or predictor or progenitor – has been often examined. Yet almost no sustained attention has been given to what is arguably Rousseau's most significant and explicit statement on revolution and its role in civilization's development. This paper calls attention to this statement and argues for its key significance on three fronts: first, for how it organizes Rousseau's conjectural history of civilization in the second Discourse; second, for the insight it offers into the processes of Rousseau's pre‐Hegelian philosophy of history; and third, for the normative political implications of its standard for measuring the relative progress of inequality in a given society at a given time.
- Subjects
FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799; ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778; FRENCH civilization; EQUALITY; PHILOSOPHY of history
- Publication
European Journal of Philosophy, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
0966-8373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ejop.12568