Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom

Rousseau's Philosophic Life

Laurence D. Cooper

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University of Chicago Press
18 May 2023

Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Social & political philosophy

A surprising look at how Rousseau defended the philosophic life as the most natural and best of lives.

Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom reveals what could be thought of as the capstone of Rousseau’s thought, even if that capstone has been nearly invisible to readers. Despite criticizing philosophy for its corrosive effects on both natural goodness and civic virtue, Rousseau, argues Laurence D. Cooper, held the philosophic life as an ideal. Cooper expertly unpacks Rousseau’s vivid depiction of the philosophic life and the case for that life as the most natural, the freest, or, in short, the best or most choice-worthy of lives. Cooper focuses especially on a single feature, arguably the defining feature of the philosophic life: the overcoming of the ordinary moral consciousness in favor of the cognitivist view of morality. Cooper shows that Rousseau, with his particular understanding and embrace of the philosophic life, proves to be a kind of latter-day Socratic. Thorough and thought-provoking, Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom provides vital insight into Rousseau.

By: Laurence D. Cooper
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780226825014
ISBN 10: 0226825019
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 18 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurence D. Cooper is professor of political science at Carleton College. He is the author of Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche: The Politics of Infinity and Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life.

Reviews for Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom: Rousseau's Philosophic Life

Written with a combination of true insight, grace, and humility, this book is the first of which I'm aware that undertakes to read Rousseau's Reveries-his most beautiful but mysterious work-as a single, consistent but unfolding story: the tale of Rousseau's journey into and then within the philosophic life. -- Arthur M. Melzer, author of The Natural Goodness of Man