Beschreibung:
The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L. Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth interpretation of the writing's complex and multileveled intended teaching about the normatively best way of life-and how essential this is for a work that was initially bewildering.
Introduction1. "First Walk"-Rousseau's Introduction2. "Second Walk"-Nature, Mortality, God3. "Third Walk"-A Spiritual-Religious Autobiography4. "Fourth Walk"-The Virtue of Truthfulness5. "Fifth Walk"-Happiness6. "Sixth Walk"-Goodness versus Virtue7. "Seventh Walk"-Botany as Consuming "Amusement"8. "8"-Renewed Self-exploration9. "9" and "10"-The Solitary Walker's "Truly Loving Heart"