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...excesses of American individualism with a strong assertion of the rights of the larger society. The social tension between the citizen and the community in democratic theory is at least as old as the 18th century differences between the rights-based philosophy of Locke and the majoritarian beliefs of Rousseau. But few voices in modern American intellectual life have challenged the primacy of the unfettered individual. To fill this void is the goal of the communitarians...
...think that any other department would have let me do what I did," says concentrator Jennifer T. Kennedy '90 of her thesis on Jean Jacques Rousseau's dogs, for which she won a Hoopes Prize. "I don't think that anywhere else would I have found that kind of trustfulness--they completely allowed me to develop in any direction I wanted...
...them, but differently. First Gorbachev really liquidated Stalinism. There may be some remnants for a while, but really it is finished. And with this revolution in Eastern Europe, Leninism is now finished too. Marx, like other important political philosophers -- Rousseau, Hobbes -- will find his place only in universities...
...managed to win 13 elections to the House of Representatives from a mostly conservative Republican farming district around Spokane in eastern Washington. A big (6 ft. 4 in., 225 lbs.), gregarious Irishman, Foley can regale a gaggle of beer guzzlers with a slightly off-color tale, then quote Rousseau, Burke and Hobbes in a symposium of scholars at the Library of Congress...
...local song that boasts "Samoa, there's no place like you" rings all too true for some of the palagis, or foreigners, on the island. At American Samoa Community College, Philip Grant gamely leads Laborday Fatali and a group of other flamboyantly named students through a discussion of Rousseau and Romanticism, only occasionally thrown off by a modern sensibility ("What does self-serving mean?" "Well, the gas station is self- service"). Yet Grant, one of those gypsy scholars who move from country to country, finds Samoa considerably more alien than his last posting, in Beirut. "In Lebanon," he says, "there...