Friday, 12 August 2016

What are the Rousseau's criticisms of the Enlightenment?


Rousseau prefigured much of the later Romantic criticism of the Enlightenment. He looked upon
society as developing organically, with all its elements inextricably linked. This put him in
conflict with the mainstream of Enlightenment thought that tended to regard society as a loose
collection of individual atoms. Rousseau rejected this conception, as it alienated individuals
from each other. According to Rousseau's vision of society, individual citizens were naturally
bound to each other, and political institutions needed to reflect this. Everyone needed to be
able to see themselves reflected...

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