The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and NietzscheBernard Yack seeks to identify and account for the development of a form of discontent held in common by a large number of European philosophers and social critics, including Rousseau, Schiller, the young Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Yack contends that these individuals, despite their profound disagreements, shared new perspectives on human freedom and history, and that these perspectives gave their discontent its peculiar breadth and intensity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. |
Contents
Revolution | 18 |
An Outline of the Argument | 27 |
ONE MONTESQUIEUS AND ROUSSEAUS APPEALS | 35 |
TWO THE NOVELTY OF ROUSSEAUS DISSATISFACTION | 61 |
THREE THE SOCIAL DISCOntent of the Kantian Left | 89 |
FOUR SCHILLER AND THE AESTHETIC WAY TO FREEDOM | 133 |
27 | 141 |
THE LONGING TAMED | 185 |
35 | 244 |
Feuerbach and the Return to Nature | 247 |
49 | 250 |
61 | 277 |
81 | 287 |
EIGHT NIETZSCHE AND CULtural RevoluTION | 310 |
CONCLUSION | 365 |
387 | |
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