• DOI:10.1017/S0034670509000333
Corpus ID: 145604095

Rousseau and the Problem of Self-Knowledge

@article{Storey2009RousseauAT,
  title={Rousseau and the Problem of Self-Knowledge},
  author={B. Storey},
  journal={The Review of Politics},
  year={2009},
  volume={71},
  pages={251-274}
}

B. Storey

Published 2009

Sociology

The Review of Politics

From the beginning of his career in the First Discourse to its end in the Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Rousseau makes clear that the problem of self-knowledge is a central problem-perhaps the central problem-that his thought seeks to address. This essay studies Rousseau's thought in the light of that problem. I argue that attention to the problem of self-knowledge is essential to understanding the rank order of Rousseau's five major human types-the citizen, natural man, the bourgeois, Emile… CONTINUE READING

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