{"product_id":"rousseaus-politics-of-taste-9781399521154","title":"Rousseau's Politics of Taste","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRousseau's Politics of Taste\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the popular but partial pictures we have of Rousseau as an inconsistent 'ancient' utopian or a 'modern' abstract philosopher with a systematising spirit. Combining intellectual history and political theory, it reinterprets his understandings of pleasure and happiness, judgment and amour-propre, inequality, the general will and, above all, taste. Rousseau's readers have long recognised the complex tensions in his thought. By reconstructing his theory of taste as a kind of modern Epicureanism, this book provides a way of articulating neglected patterns in those tensions and, a new understanding of what he was attempting to achieve with his political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJared Holley is Lecturer in Political Theory at University of Edinburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911481004306,"sku":"9781399521154","price":130.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d53bfcf-f43b-4682-8545-0ac5e38339d9.jpg?v=1738744390","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rousseaus-politics-of-taste-9781399521154","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}