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Rousseauov politički emancipacijski projekt
Rousseau’s Political Emancipatory Project

Author(s): Raul Raunić
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; personal identity; rational consensus; social contract; political liberty and equality; popular sovereignty; legitimation and justification of political authority; republicanism

Summary/Abstract: Rousseau’s work is united around the intention to provide a diagnosis and a therapy for the modern age that encompasses three emancipatory projects: pedagogical, political, and naturalistic. The author considers Rousseau’s central, political emancipatory project and analyses its particular social contract from the aspect of: 1. methodical assumptions; 2. aims, conditions, and methods of implementation; 3. transformative effects and extensions of personal identity. Rousseau justifies political authority in three ways, which gives reasons for his political project of freedom to be called liberal, moral, and participatory republicanism. The radical nature of Rousseau’s critique, in at least seven ways, discloses the essence of our contemporary age.

  • Issue Year: 34/2014
  • Issue No: 01-02
  • Page Range: 5-22
  • Page Count: 18