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...same strain of anti-authoritarianism ran through the writing of Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, eventually leading to a fresh, secular cult among the Romantics, notably in Rousseau, whose "natural man" was supposed to be superior to artificial government. One of the cries of the French Revolution, along with "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!", was "Anarchy!" A man who regarded himself as "the most complete expression of the Revolution," a self-educated French printer named Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, became anarchism's most articulate spokesman. With the Revolution ringing in his ears, and using Rousseau's "natural society" for his lamplight, Proudhon...
...point out that one of the dangers of going to college is that you learn things, and that my present actions are much influenced by my Contemporary Civilization C1001 readings. After sealing the letter I realize that my conception of the philosophy of law comes not so much from Rousseau as from Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. I remember his saying that you should decide what you think is right and then go ahead and do it. Walt Disney really bagged that one; the old fascist inadvertently created a whole generation of radicals...
...Growing Up Absurd gave him guru status with a large segment of American youth. Five Years is a self-analytical journal of random thoughts, jotted down from 1955 to 1960, when Goodman was between 45 and 50 years old. It is a ruthlessly honest confession in the manner of Rousseau: Goodman recounts how he scrounged for food, sex and love while materially and spiritually down and out. During that period of his life, he was, he remarks, "a citizen of nowhere, but an animal of the world." Nothing stands between the reader and Goodman's loneliness and despair...
...ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This tenth and last volume of their 38-year labor, The Story of Civilization, is one more proof that the Durants are the most eminently readable historians around...
...Rousseau and Revolution, W. and A. Durant...