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How does one go about trying to learn something useful about the modern economic predicament from Rousseau? How can he be made instrumental in one’s struggle to understand the options for a sustainable high quality of life? How does one capture the way he configures his domain? How should one approach the relationship between his economic philosophy and other areas of his thought? A crucial task in such a work is to thresh out those core conceptions in this arena that are most fertile for the particular purpose of this essay. For, how one should read and portray the writings of such a complicated and cunning author as Jean-Jacques Rousseau depends, of course, on the specific motives for one’s reading.
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Fridén, B. (1998). Reading Rousseau. In: Rousseau’s Economic Philosophy. International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées, vol 159. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5294-5_2
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