Works by R. Wokler
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- Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains.Christopher Fox,Roy Porter &Robert Wokler (eds.) -1995 - University of California Press.A work of remarkable cross-disciplinary scholarship, this volume illuminates the origins of the human sciences and offers a new view of the Enlightenment that ...
- Rousseau.Robert Wokler -1995 - Oxford University Press USA.Rousseau was both a central figure of the European Enlightenment and its most formidable critic. In this compact, thought-provoking study across a range of disciplines, Robert Wokler shows how Rousseau's thinking and writing were all inspired by an ideal of mankind's self-realization in a condition of unfettered freedom. No other work on Rousseau provides such a readable introduction to his life and work.
- Contextualizing Hegel's Phenomenology of the French Revolution and the Terror.Robert Wokler -1998 -Political Theory 26 (1):33-55.
- Rousseau.Robert Wokler -1998 -Diderot Studies 27:223-224.
- From l'homme physique to l'homme moral and back: towards a history of Enlightenment anthropology.Robert Wokler -1993 -History of the Human Sciences 6 (1):121-138.
- Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains.Christopher Fox,Roy Porter,Robert Wokler &G. W. Stocking Jr -1997 -Annals of Science 54 (3):313-313.The human sciences—including psychology, anthropology, and social theory—are widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century. This first full-length, English-language study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources, context, and effects of this major intellectual development. The book argues that the most fundamental inspiration for the Enlightenment was the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Natural philosophers from Copernicus to Newton had created a magisterial science of nature based on the realization that the physical world operated (...) according to orderly, discoverable laws. Eighteenth-century thinkers sought to cap this achievement with a science of _human_ nature. Belief in the existence of laws governing human will and emotion; social change; and politics, economics, and medicine suffused the writings of such disparate figures as Hume, Kant, and Adam Smith and formed the basis of the new sciences. A work of remarkable cross-disciplinary scholarship, this volume illuminates the origins of the human sciences and offers a new view of the Enlightenment that highlights the period's subtle social theory, awareness of ambiguity, and sympathy for historical and cultural difference. (shrink)
- Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - Princeton University Press.Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of (...) less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust. (shrink)
- Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction.Robert Wokler -2001 - Oxford University Press.Rousseau was both a central figure of the European Enlightenment and its most formidable critic. In this compact, thought-provoking study of his works across a range of disciplines, Robert Wokler shows how his thinking and writing were all inspired by an ideal of humanity's self-realization in a condition of unfettered freedom. No other work on Rousseau provides such a readable introduction to his life and work.
- Isaiah Berlin's counter-Enlightenment.Joseph Mali &Robert Wokler (eds.) -2003 - Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society.7 What Ss Counter- Enlightenment? Mark Cilia i. The critique of the modern age is as old as the age itself. Ever since men began seeking distinction by ...
- Chapter 1. Perfectible Apes in Decadent Cultures: Rousseau's Anthropology Revisited.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 1-28.No categories
- Notes.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 279-362.No categories
- Index.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 375-396.No categories
- Anthropology and conjectural history in the enlightenment.Robert Wokler -1995 - In Christopher Fox, Roy Porter & Robert Wokler,Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains. University of California Press. pp. 31--52.
- 15 Ancient Postmodernism in the Philosophy of Rousseau.Robert Wokler -2001 - In Patrick Riley,The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 418.
- Rousseau's Pufendorf: natural law and the foundations of commercial society.Robert Wokler -1994 -History of Political Thought 15 (3):373-402.have tried to sketch certain aspects of Rousseau's revolutionary significance on several occasions before, and I do not here mean to pursue that subject further. My aim, rather, will be to consider the political dimension of liberty, as he conceived it, in the light of a particular debate which to my mind has formed the most important contribution to the study of Rousseau's political thought in the twentieth century, around a theme which had received perhaps insufficient, and certainly less problematic, (...) attention before. This debate has to do with the place of natural law in his philosophy, and with the extent to which, in his idea of the foundations of the state, he upheld or rejected principles of jurisprudence espoused by earlier thinkers. I will consider such principles in three rather different forms, which I here term superior, anterior and generative natural law, and in my final and longest section I will comment on Rousseau's idea of representation in the light of arguments drawn from a number of jurisprudential thinkers before him. In the course of my discussion, moreover, I mean to offer a new interpretation of his assessment of one figure in particular -- that is, Pufendorf -- whom I believe Rousseau came to confront in his writings as much as, if not more than, any other political thinker. (shrink)
- A reply to Charvet-Rousseau and the perfectibility of man.R. Wokler -1980 -History of Political Thought 1 (1):81-90.
- The enlightenment science of politics.Robert Wokler -1995 - In Christopher Fox, Roy Porter & Robert Wokler,Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains. University of California Press.
- The Enlightenment and modernity.Norman Geras &Robert Wokler (eds.) -1999 - New York: St. Martin's Press.This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization. Each author offers an interpretation of modern or postmodern philosophy against the background of a so-called Enlightenment Project, envisaged as the conceptual ghost that haunts modernity.
- Rousseau & the Eighteenth Century: Essays in Memory of R.A. Leigh.Marian Hobson,J. T. A. Leigh &Robert Wokler -1992
- Acknowledgements.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Abbreviations used in Citations of Rousseau's Work.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press.Export citation Bookmark
- Bibliography of The Published Work of Robert Wokler.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 363-374.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Chapter 13. Ernst Cassirer's Enlightenment: An Exchange With Bruce Mazlish.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 233-243.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 14. Isaiah Berlin's Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 244-259.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 9. Preparing The Definitive Edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 136-153.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 15. Projecting the Enlightenment.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 260-278.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 2. Rites of Passage and the Grand Tour: Discovering, Imagining and Inventing European Civilization in the Age of Enlightenment.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 29-45.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Chapter 3. Rousseau on Rameau and Revolution.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 46-67.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 6. Rousseau's Pufendorf: Natural Law and the Foundations of Commercial Society.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 88-112.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 7. Rousseau's Reading of the Book of Genesis and the Theology of Commercial Society.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 113-120.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 10. Rousseau's Two Concepts of Liberty.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 154-184.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 12. Rousseau and Marx.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 214-232.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 5. The Enlightenment Hostilities of Voltaire and Rousseau.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 80-87.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 8. The Manuscript Authority of Political Thoughts.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 121-135.Export citation Bookmark
- Chapter 11. The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 185-213.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Chapter 4. Vagabond Reverie.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press. pp. 68-79.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Foreword.RobertHG Wokler -2012 - InRousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies. Princeton University Press.Export citation Bookmark
- From The Moral And Political Sciences To The Sciences Of Society By Way Of The French Revolution.Robert Wokler -2000 -Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 8.No categories
- Hobbes en France au XVIIIesiècle.Robert Wokler -1995 -History of European Ideas 21 (3):473-475.
- Projecting the enlightenment.Robert Wokler -1994 - In John P. Horton & Susan Mendus,After Macintyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair Macintyre. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.
- Rousseau and Liberty.Robert Wokler &Rousseau and the Cause Of Liberty -1995Rousseau is considered to be at once the most modern political thinker of the 18th century and the most ancient in his allegiance to classical republicanism. These essays address the place of liberty in his moral and political philosophy, and the origins, meaning, strength, weakness and significance of his argument.
- 5 Rousseau and his critics on the fanciful liberties we have lost1.Robert Wokler -2000 - In Reinhard Brandt & Karlfriedrich Herb,Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechts. Akademie Verlag. pp. 85-108.
- 5. Rousseau and his critics on the fanciful liberties we have lost1.Robert Wokler -2000 - In Reinhard Brandt & Karlfriedrich Herb,Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechts. Akademie Verlag. pp. 83-106.
- Rousseau's reading of the book of genesis and the theology of commercial society.Robert Wokler -2006 -Modern Intellectual History 3 (1):85-94.
- Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies.Robert Wokler &Christopher Brooke -2012 - Princeton University Press.Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of (...) less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust. (shrink)
- Social thought of J.J. Rousseau.Robert Wokler -1987 - New York: Garland.
- The Enlightenment Project as Betrayed by Modernity.Robert Wokler -1998 -History of European Ideas 24 (4-5):301-313.
- The Enlightenment Project and its Critics.Robert Wokler -1997 -Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 58:13-30.Export citation Bookmark
- The manuscript authority of political thoughts.Robert Wokler -1999 -History of Political Thought 20 (1):107-123.Contextualist interpretations of political thought need to be imaginatively constructed no less than the philosophically abstract readings they are often designed to supplant. Examples of recent scholarship on Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, in particular, illustrate problems in establishing contextual meaning with precision. Manuscripts often embrace their authors' notions in an unrefined state, in their gestation and the immediacy of their first formulations. The study of manuscripts sometimes invites a free association of ideas across what, in a post-Enlightenment world, may be (...) perceived as circumscribed disciplinary boundaries. (shrink)
- The Social Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: An Historical Interpretation of His Early Writings.Robert Wokler -1977
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