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Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom
ISBN: 9780823257324
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Rousseau Jean-Jacques 1712–1778 -- Political and social views; Political science -- Philosophy; Primitivism; Slavery;

Fugitive Rousseau explores slavery and primitivism in Rousseau's political writings by contextualizing them in modern European empire and Roman imperial philosophy. Fugitive Rousseau argues against seeing Rousseau as either a nativist or cosmopolitan, either communitarian or liberal, and instead reconstructs a radical conception of freedom based in fugitive political resistance.

Jimmy Casas Klausen holds an appointment at the Instituto de Relações Internacionais of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He is co-editor with James Martel of How Not to Be Governed. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Polity, Political Theory, and Journal of Politics.