Word: rousseau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main theme of artist as primitive, untrammeled by conventions of any kind. O.K.'s letters were full of nostalgia for the innocence and vitality he felt had been lost to Europe under the crust of bourgeois sublimation. As an expressionist, he was one of the last children of Rousseau, and he idealized the noble savage within himself. That this savage was the cultural artifact of the middle classes whose values he longed to escape was no mean irony. Kokoschka's shenanigans failed to throw the burghers into the turmoil he hoped for, but they made an indelible impression...
...Professor Weinreb, what did Rousseau say about the noble savage? And do you capitalize General Will? If I abbreviate it as GW will you think I'm snide? If I'm really snide will you think I know everything, or at least let me into the Law School...
...Rousseau observed, the privileged among humankind "prize the things they enjoy only insofar as the others are deprived of them," and would cease to be happy if their social inferiors were granted equal enjoyment. If the University were attempting to increase the aggregate happiness of the entire community--regular students as well as Fly Club members--it has most assuredly failed...
...thin ice begins to crack underfoot as Koch goes on, without any explicit analysis, to invoke the names of Kant, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Mill. He attempts to paraphrase this assemblage of Moral Reasoning luminaries: "natural law properly authorizes the sovereign to take life in order to vindicate justice." Koch's mistranslation of social contractarian arguments looks more like totalitarianism than democracy...
...that science should be regarded only in its own terms. Science is inevitably bound up in other areas of intellectual history. Cohen embellishes his discussion of scientists from Copernicus to Einstein with reference to Thuycidides, Plato, Tacitus, Montaigne, English political history, Renaissance history, Jonathan Swift, Ben Jonson's masques, Rousseau, Voltaire, Samuel Johnson and even the rebel yell of confederate soldiers in the American Civil...