Date of Award
Spring 2023
Degree Type
Open Access Dissertation
Degree Name
Political Science, PhD
Program
School of Social Science, Politics, and Evaluation
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
James Nichols
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Mark Blitz
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Susan McWilliams
Terms of Use & License Information
Rights Information
© 2023 Trevor M Shunk
Subject Categories
Political Science
Abstract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher who cared about nonphilosophers. He intervened in circumstances where he saw nonphilosophers in danger, such as with the Lettre à d’Alembert , and he wrote enchanting stories for them, such as Julie . His overarching concern in these books was what he perceived as a loss of virtue or virtue undermined by contemporary trends in the theater and in the literary world. His writings were radical in their originality: the Lettre à d’Alembert condemned popular spectacles and Julie departed from the norm for novels. Rousseau denounced other philosophers for irresponsibility among nonphilosophers in relation to forms of amusement and sought to exemplify appropriate action with his own pen.
ISBN
9798379695286
Recommended Citation
Shunk, Trevor Mark. (2023). Forms of Amusement: Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert and Julie. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 562. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/562.
