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Abandoned to ourselves

by Peter Alexander Meyers

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In 'Abandoned to Ourselves', Peter Alexander Myers shows how the centrepiece of the Enlightenment - society as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice - was primarily composed and animated by its most ambivalent figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Political sociologyPolitical and social viewsRousseau, jean-jacques, 1712-1778Sociology, philosophySociologyPhilosophyHistory