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Article: The stories of citizens: Rousseau, Montesquieu, and de Stael challenge Enlightenment reason. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, and Germaine de Stael)
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- March 22, 1998
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, and Germaine de Stael tell stories that warn against adopting the model of manly citizenship that emerged from the basic tenets of Enlightenment thought. This model includes idealization of the individual as autonomous self, faith in the possibility of a unitary public, the twinning of increasing enlightenment with increasing freedom and progress, and belief that political judgment is best made from an Archimedean point outside of time, space, particular experiences or interests, and familial loyalties. Though Rousseau, Montesquieu, and de Stael are often interpreted as adherents of the Enlightenment, their stories of ...
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