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A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.52 AVERAGE
139 reviews for:
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.52 AVERAGE
BIG TIME SLAY
jean jacques (jj) a tout dit tout vu tout fait et tout compris. if you want to educate yourself on politics, this is where you should definitely start. it's quite an easy read for a philosophical essay (well, seemingly at least), and it gives you an idea of the broad state of society. it is accurate, worryingly so, and insightful, worryingly so.
invented karl marx. would have stolen your girlfriend.
jean jacques (jj) a tout dit tout vu tout fait et tout compris. if you want to educate yourself on politics, this is where you should definitely start. it's quite an easy read for a philosophical essay (well, seemingly at least), and it gives you an idea of the broad state of society. it is accurate, worryingly so, and insightful, worryingly so.
invented karl marx. would have stolen your girlfriend.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
JJ rousseau my bestie worstie. mary wollstonecraft was right to dunk him like a basketball for the general misogyny, but after reading the second discourse for class, i have grudgingly recovered some respect for him. the man can write & he makes a lot of good points. even if, to a teenage dyke living in the 21st century, it sometimes reads like [joker voice] we live in a society
It's hard to make a review of a book centuries old. What you will find from this is an 18th century person investigating the inequalities in his society. Read it as a spring board to bigger discussions, but it offers little applicable today.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
It's interesting. It's flawed. It's Rousseau. It's the way it is.
another read for my philosophy class! i found some of the arguments compelling and interesting to discuss in class, but there's a lot of hypocrisy and romanticization from a privileged perspective that i kept encountered soooo... both/and i guess
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
This infamous book is as good as its reputation, Rousseau bombastically deconstructs ideas of natural hierarchy and points us to the social origin of many deemed 'natural facets' of life.
The relevance of this is perhaps understated as we return to a society where the powerful and rich are re-given their pre-Enlightenment dignitas of having earned their position through the "nobility" of their supposed "hard-work", a viewpoint which has striking similarities to the way old aristocracies justified their immense power imbalance with everyday man.
Rousseau's writing is captivating and thoroughly exegetic as he takes time to open his concepts up as he proceeds through the text.
The book's content does not need selling as Rousseau's ideas stand in pre-eminence among thinkers of his time, a necessary read for anyone remotely interested in the origin of many common ideas about the human and social condition and for those interested by writers inspired by Rousseau such as Marx
The relevance of this is perhaps understated as we return to a society where the powerful and rich are re-given their pre-Enlightenment dignitas of having earned their position through the "nobility" of their supposed "hard-work", a viewpoint which has striking similarities to the way old aristocracies justified their immense power imbalance with everyday man.
Rousseau's writing is captivating and thoroughly exegetic as he takes time to open his concepts up as he proceeds through the text.
The book's content does not need selling as Rousseau's ideas stand in pre-eminence among thinkers of his time, a necessary read for anyone remotely interested in the origin of many common ideas about the human and social condition and for those interested by writers inspired by Rousseau such as Marx