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Notes on Rousseau: Free Upbringing – Project or Utopia

Author(s): Veska Guviiska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Education, History of Philosophy, Logic, Social Philosophy, Civil Society, Sociology, Adult Education, History of Education, Educational Psychology, State/Government and Education, Social development, Social differentiation, Family and social welfare, Human Ecology, Rural and urban sociology, Social Informatics, Welfare services, Social Norms / Social Control, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: upbringing; education; freedom; nature; culture; social contract; metaphor; philosophy of language

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers a new interpretation on Rousseau in the context of Richard Rorty’s concepts on the philosophy of language and the linguistic turn developed at the end of the 20th century. The classical interpretation of Rousseau’s ideas of freedom in view of upbringing as a rule juxtaposes nature and culture. The present paper argues that this opposition can be overcome through the application of the metaphor approach to both upbringing and the value-neutral character of language. In this sense the question to be answered is how the languages of the teacher and of the student co-exist in Rousseau’s ideas and what the mechanism is that turns these languages into means of upbringing. The research employs arguments in favour of the hypothesis that in terms of the metaphor of “upbringing” created by Rousseau in Emile or on Education, the concepts language of nature and language of society overlap.

  • Issue Year: 89/2017
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 1205-1215
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian