Rousseau i nowożytne spotkanie z Innym

Autor

  • Sylwester Zielka Uniwersytet Gdański

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0008.9219

Słowa kluczowe:

Rousseau, Inny, nowożytność, odmienność kulturowa

Abstrakt

The paper situates the thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau in the context of the 17th and 18th century social and political debate on the possibility of creating a better society, which intensified with the crisis of feudal system and early modern discovery of the Other. The paper also discusses consequences of this debate for shaping anthropology as a field of knowledge and understanding culture of the time. The idea of a “noble savage” according to which non-Europeans, i.e., the “primitive” people living in the state of nature as free and equal, without concerns and inconveniences of civilization, is contrasted with an opposite project of a “degenerate savage” of Thomas Hobbes, who used it as a justification for absolute monarchy in European countries and of European societies over non-Western ones.

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2015-09-30

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Zielka, S. (2015). Rousseau i nowożytne spotkanie z Innym. Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji, 30(3), 104–112. https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0008.9219