Cladis, Mark Sydney.
Public vision, private lives : Rousseau, religion, and 21st-century democracy / Mark S. Cladis ; With a new essay by the author. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. - lvi, 298 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-283) and index.
Religion, democracy, and modernity : the case for progressive spiritual democracy -- Preparing for the journey : an introduction -- I. From the garden to the city : the tragic passage. Nature's garden ; Revisiting the garden's solitaires ; From the garden to the blessed country : the precarious passage ; The rush to slavery -- The city : life in the ousted condition ; Overcoming moral evil : Rousseau at the crossroads -- II. Paths to redemption. Reforming the city : the extreme public path ; Evading the city : the private path ; The mountain village : the path to family, work, community, and love ; Reconciling citizen and solitaire : religious dimensions of the middle way ; Residual conflict : democracy and ineluctable friction -- A way forward : Rousseau and 21st-century democracy.
0231139691 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231139694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
GBA662099 bnb
013511541 Uk
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Religion and politics.
Public interest.
Privacy.
Democracy.
JC179.R9 / C53 2007
322/.1
Public vision, private lives : Rousseau, religion, and 21st-century democracy / Mark S. Cladis ; With a new essay by the author. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. - lvi, 298 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-283) and index.
Religion, democracy, and modernity : the case for progressive spiritual democracy -- Preparing for the journey : an introduction -- I. From the garden to the city : the tragic passage. Nature's garden ; Revisiting the garden's solitaires ; From the garden to the blessed country : the precarious passage ; The rush to slavery -- The city : life in the ousted condition ; Overcoming moral evil : Rousseau at the crossroads -- II. Paths to redemption. Reforming the city : the extreme public path ; Evading the city : the private path ; The mountain village : the path to family, work, community, and love ; Reconciling citizen and solitaire : religious dimensions of the middle way ; Residual conflict : democracy and ineluctable friction -- A way forward : Rousseau and 21st-century democracy.
0231139691 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231139694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
GBA662099 bnb
013511541 Uk
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Religion and politics.
Public interest.
Privacy.
Democracy.
JC179.R9 / C53 2007
322/.1