Qvortrup, Mads: The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Impossibility of Reason.(Book Review)

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From: Perspectives on Political Science
Date: 20050322
Author:Livingstone, David

Qvortrup, Mads The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Impossibility of Reason New York: Manchester University Press 135pp., $24.95, ISBN: 07-190-6580-1 Publication Date: April 2004

In The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Impossibility of Reason, Mads Qvortrup, a senior fellow at the Initiative and Referendum Institute in Washington, DC, seeks to dispel the view that Rousseau is closer to revolutionaries such as Robespierre than he is to constitutionalists such as Montesquieu or Madison. Qvortup indicates that he came to Rousseau expecting to ...

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