Engaging with Rousseau Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Editedby Avi Lifschitz UniversityCollegeLondon Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:08, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582 UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107146327 ©AviLifschitz2016 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2016 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publicationdata Lifschitz,Avi,1975–author. EngagingwithRousseau:reactionandinterpretationfromtheeighteenth centurytothepresent/editedbyAviLifschitz,UniversityCollegeLondon. Cambridge,UnitedKingdom:CambridgeUniversityPressispart oftheUniversityofCambridge,[2016]|Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. LCCN2016017599|ISBN9781107146327 LCSH:Rousseau,Jean-Jacques,1712–1778. LCCB2137.E542016|DDC194–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2016017599 ISBN978-1-107-14632-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:08, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582 Engaging with Rousseau Jean-JacquesRousseauhasbeencastasachampionofEnlightenment andabeaconofRomanticism,afatherfigureofradicalrevolutionaries andtotalitariandictatorsalike,aninventorofthemodernnotionofthe self and an advocate of stern ancient republicanism. Engaging with Rousseautreatshiswritingsasanenduringtopicofdebate,examining thediverseresponsestheyhaveattractedfromtheEnlightenmenttothe present. Such notions as the general will were, for example, refracted through very different prisms during the struggle for independence in LatinAmericaandinsocialconflictsinEasternEurope,ormodifiedby thinkers from Kant to contemporary political theorists. Beyond Rousseau’s ideas, his public image also travelled around the world. This book examines engagement with Rousseau’s works as well as withhisself-fashioning:especiallyinturbulenttimes,hisdefiantpublic identity and his call for regeneration were admired or despised by intellectualsandpoliticalagents. Avi Lifschitz is Senior Lecturer in European Intellectual History at University College London (UCL). He is the author of Language and Enlightenment:TheBerlinDebatesoftheEighteenthCentury(2012)andco- editorofEpicurusintheEnlightenment(2009). Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:19, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:19, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582 Engaging with Rousseau Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Editedby Avi Lifschitz UniversityCollegeLondon Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:19, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582 UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107146327 ©AviLifschitz2016 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2016 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publicationdata Lifschitz,Avi,1975–author. EngagingwithRousseau:reactionandinterpretationfromtheeighteenth centurytothepresent/editedbyAviLifschitz,UniversityCollegeLondon. Cambridge,UnitedKingdom:CambridgeUniversityPressispart oftheUniversityofCambridge,[2016]|Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. LCCN2016017599|ISBN9781107146327 LCSH:Rousseau,Jean-Jacques,1712–1778. 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University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:19, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582 Contents Notesoncontributors pagevii Preface xi Acknowledgements xxi Noteonthetextsandreferences xxiii 1 ‘Aloverofpeacemorethanliberty’?TheGenevan rejectionofRousseau’spolitics richard whatmore 1 2 AdrastusversusDiogenes:FredericktheGreatand Jean-JacquesRousseauonself-love avi lifschitz 17 3 Sourcesofevilorseedsofthegood?RousseauandKant onneeds,thearts,andthesciences alexander schmidt 33 4 RousseauandFrenchliberalism,1789–1870 jeremy jennings 56 5 Rousseauandtheredistributiverepublic: Nineteenth-centuryFrenchinterpretations jean-fabien spitz 74 6 EchoesoftheSocialContractinCentralandEastern Europe,1770–1825 monika baa´r 95 7 ReadingRousseauinSpanishAmericaduringthewars ofindependence(1808–1826) nicola miller 114 v Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:30, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582 vi Contents 8 ‘Theporchtoacollectivismasabsoluteasthemindofman haseverconceived’:RousseauscholarshipinBritainfrom theGreatWartotheColdWar christopher brooke 136 9 RousseauatHarvard:JohnRawlsandJudithShklaron realisticutopia ce´line spector 152 10 Rousseau’sdilemma philip pettit 168 11 Thedepthsofrecognition:ThelegacyofJean-Jacques Rousseau axel honneth 189 Bibliography 207 Index 215 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:30, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582 Notes on contributors monikabaa´risAssociateProfessorofHistoryatLeidenUniversity.She is the author of Historians and Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the NineteenthCentury(2010)andco-authorofAHistoryofModernPolitical ThoughtinEastCentralEurope:VolumeI,NegotiatingModernityinthe ‘LongNineteenthCentury’(2016)andVolumeII,NegotiatingModernity inthe‘ShortTwentiethCentury’andBeyond(forthcomingin2017). christopher brooke is Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Politics at Homerton College. He is the author of Philosophic Pride: StoicismandPoliticalThoughtfromLipsiustoRousseau(2012)andtheco- editor, with Elizabeth Frazer, of Ideas of Education: Philosophy and PoliticsfromPlatotoDewey(2013). axel honneth is Senior Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe UniversityinFrankfurtamMainandJackC.WeinsteinProfessorfor the Humanities at the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University. Since 2001 he has also been Director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. His publications in English include The Critique of Power (1990), The Struggle for Recognition (1995), Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (co- authored with Nancy Fraser, 2003), Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2007), Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea (2008), Pathologies of Reason (2009), The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel’s Social Theory (2010), The I in We: Studies intheTheoryofRecognition(2012),andFreedom’sRight(2014). jeremy jennings is Professor of Political Theory and Head of the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is theauthorofnumerousbooks,chapters,andarticlesonthehistoryof French political thought, most notably Revolution and the Republic: vii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:41, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582 viii Notesoncontributors A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century (2011). avi lifschitz is Senior Lecturer in European Intellectual History at UniversityCollegeLondon(UCL).HeistheauthorofLanguageand Enlightenment:The Berlin Debatesof theEighteenth Century(2012) and co-editor of Epicurus in the Enlightenment (2009) and Rethinking Lessing’s Laokoon (forthcoming). He has also recently edited Rousseau’s Imagined Antiquity, a special issue of the journal History of PoliticalThought. nicola miller is Professor of Latin American History at University CollegeLondon (UCL).Shehas publishedwidely on theintellectual and cultural history of Latin America, most recently Reinventing Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900–1930 (2008) and America Imagined: Explaining the United States inNineteenth-CenturyEuropeandLatinAmerica(withAxelKörnerand Adam I. P. Smith, 2012). She is currently working on a comparative historyofknowledgeinLatinAmerica. philip pettit is L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. His books include Republicanism(1997),TheEconomyofEsteem(withG.Brennan,2004), GroupAgency(with C.List, 2011),Onthe People’sTerms(2012),Just Freedom(2014),andTheRobustDemandsoftheGood(2015).Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit, ed. G. Brennan, R. Goodin, F. Jackson, and M. Smith, appeared in 2007; Philip Pettit – Five Themes from His Work, ed. S. Derpmann and D.Schweikard,appearedin2016. alexander schmidt is Junior Professor of Intellectual History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and currently a Feodor Lynen Fellowat the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought,University of Chicago. He is the author of Vaterlandsliebe und Religionskonflikt. Politische Diskurse im Alten Reich 1555–1648 (2007). His work has appearedinTheHistoricalJournal,HistoryofEuropeanIdeas,Historyof Political Thought, Modern Intellectual History, Francia, and elsewhere. HehasalsoeditedFriedrichSchiller’sOntheAestheticEducationofMan and co-edited a special issue of History of European Ideas entitled SociabilityinEnlightenmentThought. ce´line spector isFullProfessoratthePhilosophyDepartmentofthe University of Bordeaux (Montaigne). Her research interests include Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Edinburgh, on 11 Nov 2017 at 14:05:41, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536582