Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom
by
Jimmy Casas Klausen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective...