Mass enlightenment : critical studies in Rousseau and Diderot
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Mass enlightenment : critical studies in Rousseau and Diderot
（SUNY series in social and political thought）
State University of New York Press, c1995
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Bibliography: p. 221-232
Includes index
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Description
Mass Enlightenment uncovers the tensions and contradictions associated with the rise of capitalism and mass culture as they were already making themselves felt during the second half of the eighteenth century and shows that the works of Rousseau and Diderot display a manifest awareness of the negative side of "enlightenment" and "progress." Simon explores the themes of individual freedom and moral autonomy, the growth of a consumer market, alienated social relations, the split between the public and private spheres, and the appearance of commodification as they are articulated in the writings of Rousseau and Diderot. Her careful readings of these Enlightenment theorists expose concerns over the crisis tendencies associated with capitalism and a consumer market similar to those diagnosed by the writers of the Frankfurt School.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Critical Introduction
1. Alienation, Individuation, and Enlightenment in Rousseau's Social Theory
2. Rousseau and the Problem of Community: Nationalism, Civic Virtue, Totalitarianism
3. The Public Sphere, Alienation, and Commodification:Rousseau's Autobiographical Writings
Transitional Interlude
4. Materialist Hermeneutics: Diderot's Rêve de d'Alembert
5. Diderot and Hegel: Alienation and the Problem of Ethical Life in Le Neveu de Rameau
6. The Public/Private Dialectic Revisited: Diderot's Art Criticism
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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