The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

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Univ of California Press, Sep 23, 2022 - History - 416 pages
Bernard 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.

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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
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81
287
EIGHT NIETZSCHE AND CULtural RevoluTION
310
CONCLUSION
365
INDEX
387

SIX THE SOCIAL DISCONTENT of the HEGELIAN LEFT
227
1828
231

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Bernard Yack is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin.

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