Rousseau's Relation With The French Revolution
B. A. – 2nd Semester – Summer Drive 2012
B.A. (English)
Subject Name: Political Thinkers.
Subject code: BAE 202
4 credits (60 marks)
(BKID: B1443)
Set 2
1. Explain Rousseau’s relation with the French Revolution.
According to this testimony, it would seem that Rousseau's influence extended through much of the popular and intellectual sphere. However, it also reached as high as the royal court. In a discourse before the Assemblée Nationale, Louis XVI goes as far as to attribute much of his difficulty in maintaining control of his empire to the wandering philosophe from Geneva:
Finally, it becomes clear that the use of Rousseau's thought in political pamphleteering may be at least partially the result of his own works. His powerful polemical style in the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality is coupled with his recognition of the power of critical writing in The Social Contract. Speaking of the four forces that regulate any state, Rousseau writes:
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B.A. (English)
Subject Name: Political Thinkers.
Subject code: BAE 202
4 credits (60 marks)
(BKID: B1443)
Set 2
1. Explain Rousseau’s relation with the French Revolution.
According to this testimony, it would seem that Rousseau's influence extended through much of the popular and intellectual sphere. However, it also reached as high as the royal court. In a discourse before the Assemblée Nationale, Louis XVI goes as far as to attribute much of his difficulty in maintaining control of his empire to the wandering philosophe from Geneva:
Finally, it becomes clear that the use of Rousseau's thought in political pamphleteering may be at least partially the result of his own works. His powerful polemical style in the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality is coupled with his recognition of the power of critical writing in The Social Contract. Speaking of the four forces that regulate any state, Rousseau writes:
Along