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  • Penn State University The Most Learned Woman in America A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson

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  • Penn State University The Vulgar Tongue Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity

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  • Penn State University Experiment in Occupation Witness to the Turnabout

    Book SynopsisIn Experiment in Occupation, Arthur Kahn offers a richly detailed account of the process by which the fight against Nazism came to be transformed into the Cold War. Kahn's portrayal of events in postwar Germany provides warnings for current and future American experiments in foreign occupation.Trade Review“What differentiates this work from other accounts is Kahn's familiarity with German politics at the local level and his knowledge of how high-level Military Government policies were translated into actual practice. Kahn has an important story to tell and possesses a trove of documentary evidence to support some of his most interesting claims.”—Carolyn Eisenberg,Hofstra University“Arthur Kahn had an extraordinary opportunity to observe events on the ground, as the American and British armies moved across Germany during the final phases of the war and subsequently during the early period of Allied occupation. He has produced a book that relies primarily on his own first-hand observations and rich documentary materials, most of which have not previously appeared in print. What differentiates this work from other accounts is Kahn's familiarity with German politics at the local level and his knowledge of how high-level Military Government policies were translated into actual practice. Kahn has an important story to tell and possesses a trove of documentary evidence to support some of his most interesting claims.”—Carolyn Eisenberg,Hofstra UniversityTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: An OSS Recruit Despite Himself Abbreviations Part I: Why We Fight! 1. Soviet Partisans and Soviet Suspicions (Summer 1944) 2. We Do Not Call Upon the Germans to Revolt (Fall 1944) 3. The Capture-Liberation of Metz 4. The Battle of the Bulge (Winter 1944–1945) 5. Mainz: Investigating a Pre-VE Day Military Government (Spring 1945) 6. Interrogating Victims of Nazism and Nazis 7. Wuerzburg: Another Military Government Experience 8. What We Russians Like to Consider as a Typical American! Part II: Policy Clash in Military Government 9. Crack Patton's Military Government Wide Open! (Summer 1945) 10. If Only You Americans Weren't Here . . . ! 11. Patton's Last Stand 12. Elections, the American Cure-All (Fall 1945) 13. Rehearsal for McCarthyism Part III: Triumph of the Cold Warriors 14. A Military Government in Crisis (Winter 1945–1946) 15. Elections: The American Panacea II 16. Democracy, American Zone Style! 17. Summing Up and the Collective Guilt Issue (Spring 1946) 18. Demoralized GIs Epilogue: 1946–1947 Appendices Index

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  • Penn State University Avodah Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur Penn State Library of Jewish Literature

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  • Penn State University Community of the Cross Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem Max Kade GermanAmerican Research Institute

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  • Wives of Steel Voices of Women from the Sparrows

    Penn State University Wives of Steel Voices of Women from the Sparrows

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    Book SynopsisWives of Steel is based on more than 80 interviews with women and some men, all of whom were part of Sparrows Point as workers, spouses, or longtime residents of the local communities and tells a story that continues to be played out in communities across America as working-class families are forced to cope with a globalizing economy.Trade Review“Wives of Steel addresses a key failure of most studies of industrial communities. Too often scholars assume that male-dominated industries and their communities are shaped by men who hold the industrial jobs. By placing women at the forefront of the Sparrows Point story, Olson shows how women experienced deindustrialization differently than men. Forced to join the workforce to help families survive the loss of well-paying union jobs, many women discovered the rewards of increased independence and autonomy. The result is a more complicated, and more persuasive, picture of America’s postindustrial communities. Wives of Steel will find an eager audience among labor, women’s, community studies scholars; students; and the general public.”—Laurie Mercier,Washington State University, Vancouver“Wives of Steel makes a compelling and sure-to-be-noticed contribution to a very rich and lively literature on the community experience of deindustrialization. Employing rich ethnographic and interview data, Olson demonstrates forcefully the need for a more gendered appreciation of the impact of large-scale economic transformation.”—Michael Frisch,SUNY–Buffalo“Olson examines, within the context of a manufacturing community, the profound social changes brought about by economic upheaval. After reading her book, you’ll never hear news about downsizing and lay-offs as simply an economic abstraction.”—John Lewis Baltimore Magazine“In all, Olson’s study is an informative, rigorous, and interesting exploration of a complex workplace community over time.”—Linda Grant Niemann Technology and Culture“[Olson’s] findings are an important contribution to debates about the postindustrial economy.”—Ellen Baker Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Sparrows Point, Turners Station, and Dundalk: The History of the Mill’s Communities2. The Gendered World of Steel: It’s a Man’s World Inside the Sparrows Point Mill3. Boarders and the Long Turn in a Company Town: Sparrows Point Wives, 1887–19454. The Family Works the Schedule: Steelworkers’ Wives, 1945–19705. Women Steelworkers at the Point: Interlopers in a Man’s World6. Deindustrialization at Sparrows Point: Disappearance of the Breadwinner-Homemaker7. Renegotiating Families with Two Breadwinners: Partnership and Divorce8. A Larger Circle of Neighbors: Deindustrialization and the Web of Class, Race, Gender, and LocationConclusionBibliographyIndex

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  • Elections in Pennsylvania A Century of Partisan Conflict in the Keystone State

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  • Catholic and French Forever Religious and

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    Book SynopsisIn Catholic and French Forever Joseph Byrnes recounts the fights and reconciliations between French citizens who found Catholicism integral to their traditional French identity and those who found the continued presence of Catholicism an obstacle to both happiness and progress.Trade Review“This profitable book tackles an important topic from a rather novel perspective. Since the French Revolution it has been as easy to argue that being French means being Catholic as to argue that being Catholic is inimical or irrelevant to French identity. Byrnes presents the conflict of these points of view, its origins in rationalist Enlightenment and militant revolutionary deism, and its evolution to the present day.”—Eugen Weber “Few contemporary authors command the time-transcendent wisdom that enables Byrnes to place in perspective the rich detail provided by years of historical research. Couple that learning with an elegant prose style and one has not only an informative piece of scholarship but a delightful book.”—Jude P. Dougherty Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly“This attractive mélange of the personal and the professional has led Byrnes to produce an uncommonly good book.”—Steven Englund Commonweal MagazineTable of ContentsContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Catholic and French Forever 2. Between Church and Nation3. National Ideals and Their Failure4. Religious and Secular Extremes5. Piety Against Politics6. Local Languages for the Defense of Religion7. The Limits of Personal Reconciliation8. Reconciliation of Cultures in the Third Republic9. Between the Wars, Vichy, and the New Republics10. The Nation ConundrumEpilogueAppendix Notes Further ReadingIndex

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  • Penn State University Women at Work in Preindustrial France

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  • Penn State University Signs of Devotion The Cult of St. 198thelthryth in Medieval England 6951615

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  • Penn State University Debating Gods Economy Social Justice in America

    Book SynopsisDebating God’s Economy is a history of American Catholic economic debates taking place during the generation preceding Vatican II. Prentiss maintains that the tradition is better understood as a debate grounded in a common mythology that provides Catholics with a distinctive vocabulary and touchstone of authority.Trade Review“This is a skillfully contextualized, intelligent, and empathetic study of the authors, activists, and social scientists on all sides of the debate that rocked the American Catholic Church between the Depression and Vatican II. It raises new and fruitful questions about the nature and workings of the American Catholic community on the eve of Vatican II.”—D. Campbell Choice“Prentiss has written a solid and insightful study of the topic that deserves to be incorporated into the history of what has been called ‘the Church’s best-kept secret': Catholic social teaching. . . . The critical distance maintained with the aid of an overall approach from religious studies is on balance a great boon to historical understanding.”—Paul Misner Catholic Books Review“This book presents an excellent history, much of it from original sources, of some of the main institutional dialogues or approaches from this time. Those in search of a readable, balanced history of this lively era of American Catholic life could hardly do better than this book.”—Paul Sullins Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsContentsList of AcronymsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Encyclicals2. Sanctifying Life on the Land3. Sanctifying Industrial Labor4. Sanctifying American Capitalism5. Catholics and Right-to-Work Laws6. Industry CouncilsConclusionBibliographyIndex

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  • Idea and Ontology An Essay in Early Modern Metaphysics of Ideas

    Penn State University Idea and Ontology An Essay in Early Modern Metaphysics of Ideas

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  • Penn State University Stage Fright Politics and the Performing Arts in Late Imperial Russia

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  • Penn State University Rousseau Among the Moderns Music Aesthetics

    Book SynopsisReevaluates Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the lens of music theory to question his contribution to thinking about music as an aesthetic force in social life. Links Rousseau's understanding of concepts in music to the problem of the individual's relationship to the social order.Trade Review“The research in Rousseau Among the Moderns is excellent. The book is clearly written and deploys an interesting and puckish sense of relation to present-day music. It is an important contribution to Rousseau scholarship and brings together a lot of material that has been published in very different venues.”—Tracy B. Strong,Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego“Julia Simon's Rousseau Among the Moderns is a fabulous book that adds something new and important to the field of Rousseau studies. In the past two decades or so, a number of studies have attempted to bridge a long-standing critical gulf between Rousseau's literary works and his social theory, Simon's included. But hers is perhaps the first study to integrate what are already interdisciplinary readings of works such as The Social Contract, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and Julie with Rousseau's considerable writing about music.”—Patrick Riley,Colgate UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction1 Performance, Rhythm, and the Constitution of Community2 Singing Democracy: Music and Politics3 Rameau and Rousseau on Absolute and Relative Value: The Theory/Practice Problem4 Folk Music: Authenticity, Primitivism, and the Uses of Roots Music5 Rousseau and Aesthetic Modernity: Music’s Power of RedemptionConclusion: Rousseau Sings the BluesNotesBibliographyIndex

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  • Penn State University Church and Estate Religion and Wealth in IndustrialEra Philadelphia

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  • Penn State University Deliberative Acts Democracy Rhetoric and Rights

    Book SynopsisOffers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference’s productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory.Trade Review“Deliberative Acts provides a trenchant critique of the theoretical premises of persuasion, argumentation, and identification dominating Western rhetoric. Arabella Lyon delivers a versatile theory of deliberation as a formative act wherein differences are generative and constitutive of relational agency. Lyon focuses on paradigmatic human rights struggles to reveal the limits of liberal models of democracy and their diminishment of interpretive differences. Her astute analysis of human rights as relationships shows deliberation’s ability to transform our understanding of cross-cultural rights practices. This book is relevant for all interested in how globalization continues to shift our understanding of rights and of deliberation itself.”—Wendy S. Hesford,author of Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms“Cross-cultural interactions in the global era call for pluralistic thinking, engagement with situated difference, and keen awareness of one’s own discursive blind spots. Thanks to Arabella Lyon, we now have an insightful and compelling framework for enacting such interactions and performing deliberative acts that privilege contingency, transformation, and initial moments of recognition.”—LuMing Mao,Miami University“Arabella Lyon’s Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights is an important and exciting work of rhetorical theory that effectively challenges a central paradigm of rhetoric—persuasion—and argues for a concept of deliberation that is rooted in its performance as a speech act. I was repeatedly impressed by Lyon’s ability to engage the political discourse she analyzes and theorizes. She accomplishes a rare thing: she develops a theory nuanced and powerful enough to provide genuine insight into the complicated and ongoing speech practices that shape and reshape individuals, cultures, and political orders. She does justice to the dynamic interaction between speaker and interlocutor in ways that few works of rhetorical theory have managed to do. The power of Lyon’s theory is borne out in her very helpful analyses of the construction of the abuse of al-Obeidi, the misrepresentation of the Chinese policy of one child, and the complex role of performative speech in the history of the women’s suffrage movement. Her analyses exemplify the dynamic, evolving, and open-ended process of deliberation that she theorizes. This book will change and invigorate the ways we think and speak about the nature and consequences of speech as political action.”—James Kastely,University of Houston“Arabella Lyon’s Deliberative Acts is an exceptional treatment of human rights rhetoric with consequential ramifications for public deliberation and democratic cultures. Lyon offers readers overlapping concepts of deliberative ‘performance, performatives, and performativity’ as alternatives to the traditional emphasis on persuasion, identification, and consensus, while advancing substantive arguments for dealing with human differences in diverse and transnational contemporary life. Incisive and lucid, Deliberative Acts ranges widely across major philosophical perspectives on deliberative theory, considering classical sources such as Aristotle and Confucius, as well as twentieth-century writers such as Hannah Arendt, Kenneth Burke, John L. Austin, Judith Butler, and several accomplished feminist epistemologists and social justice theorists. Lyon’s sustained engagement with these intellectuals’ works scrutinizes their limitations respectfully, salvaging useful concepts and insights along the way, and places them in dialogue with each other to generate alternatives.”—Lester C. Olson,University of Pittsburgh“Arabella Lyon’s Deliberative Acts challenges the central assumptions of deliberative rhetoric and offers exciting new ways of reading, responding to, and creating democratic forms of life. This absorbing book analyzes human rights discourses from the perspective of performance theory, emphasizing issues of recognition, difference, and agency. Lyon develops her analysis by examining a wide range of cases: missing women in Asia, the Rigoberta Menchú controversy, and debates about women’s studies in the United States, Uzbekistan, China, and Japan.”—Susan Wells,Temple University“In Deliberative Acts, Arabella Lyon presents a cogent argument for the performative role of deliberative rhetoric in addressing the problem of human rights. She powerfully advocates what might be called a rhetorical hermeneutics of narrative aimed at achieving a more complex recognition of others as a ground for global human rights deliberation leading to political action.”—Steven Mailloux,Loyola Marymount University“Lyon’s critique of deliberation in human rights discourse, particularly her departure from identification as a valid tool in persuasion across difference, is important and should be a foundational one for those of us working in rights discourse because it cuts to the very methodology on which rights claims, particularly within official channels like the UN, have historically been predicated.”—Belinda Walzer Philosophy and Rhetoric“Lyon’s illustrative case studies and vital reconstitution of key rhetorical concepts provide essential critical frameworks for scholars and teachers working at the intersection of rhetoric and human rights studies and, more broadly, those interested in the performance of democracy.”—Wendy S. Hesford Southern Anthropological Society“Coming out of a background of attempting to introduce conceptions of universal human rights—especially the rights of traditionally subordinate or marginalized groups such as the outsider, the stranger, women, or the handicapped—into pre‐modern, often patriarchal societies, Lyon sees rhetoric more as a species of narrative hermeneutic or performative art that is on‐going, rather than reaching a predetermined end or being restricted to a single issue, that is open to contingency and the intrusion of unexpected topics as important for the other side, in which the ‘positions’ of both sides must be ready and open to evolution and transformation almost beyond recognition.”—Patrick Madigan Heythrop JournalTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Deliberation in the Global Era1 Defining Deliberative Space: Rethinking Persuasion, Position, and Identification2 Performative Deliberation and the Narratable Who3 Narrating Rights, Creating Agents: Missing Women in the U.S. Media4 The Beauty of Arendt’s Lies: Menchú’s Political Strategy 5 Voting like a Girl: Declarations, Paradoxes of Deliberation, and Embodied Citizens as a Difference in Kind NotesWorks CitedIndex

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  • Penn State University The Spiritual Vision of Frank Buchman

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  • Penn State University Chaim Potok Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

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  • Penn State University Critical Shift Rereading Jarves Cook Stillman and the Narratives of NineteenthCentury American Art

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  • Penn State University Finding Kluskap A Journey into Mikmaw Myth 2

    Book SynopsisStudies the mythic hero Kluskap of the Mi'kmaw people of eastern Canada, along with a series of eighteenth-century treaties and an annual Mi'kmaw mission to Saint Anne. Suggests that Kluskap, the treaties, and the mission are intertwined in a way that expresses a unique critique of modernity.Trade Review“Jennifer Reid presents truly original material—previously unknown stories that she recorded with Mi’kmaw friends. She also ties existing sources together in new ways. Finding Kluskap thus succeeds in presenting both new material and new interpretation—while still synthesizing existing literature in meaningful ways.”—Jace Weaver,Franklin Professor of Native American Studies and Religion, University of Georgia“Finding Kluskap weaves a distinctive way of understanding New World religious phenomena that takes seriously the mythological consequences of European presence in Native American territories. It is a scholarly engagement with the mythic dimensions of the New World and colonialism that can be seen as an indigenous critique of a settler culture through the captivating story of Kluskap and Mi'kmaw cultural survival.”—Philip P. Arnold,Syracuse University“Jennifer Reid’s well-written text examines several interconnected stories arising from the lives of the Mi'kmaw people of Nova Scotia. Reid describes how, with the arrival of Europeans in the seventeenth century, Mi'kmaw customs of reciprocity were transformed into the language of treaties—and the land of origin, habitation, and sustenance became property that could be bought and sold. These stories are told against a backdrop evoked by the presence of the primordial Mi'kmaw culture hero Kluskap as well as Saint Anne, the matriarch of the Holy Family in the Roman Catholic tradition. Reid demonstrates how the Mi'kmaq creatively responded to ambiguous and dangerous contact with European cultures. The Mi'kmaq, she shows, were able to maintain relationships with their own traditions and, through a careful deciphering of the contact zone, create new modes of being human.”—Charles H. Long,University of California, Santa Barbara“[Finding Kluskap] shows how the fixed nature of the sacredness of place (particularly the island Potlotek) is the axis mundi that runs through the metamorphosis of cultural transformation into Mi’kmaw Christianity. Kluskap’s relationship to this place continues to provide a sacred orienting narrative that grounds not just the sacred nature of Mi’kmaw land, but also the sacred nature of legal agreements about that land. . . . [The book] will be of interest to a wide array of scholars in religious studies, Native American Studies, historiography, and anthropology.”—Kimberly Jenkins Marshall AnthroCyBib“There is much in the book that is of great interest to folklorists including the connection among Mi’kmaw belief, stories of treaties, stories of broken promises and Mi’kmaw experience of the sacred. It is fascinating also that the treaties, perceived as sacred agreements to Mi’kmaw people, remain at the center of religious ritual even when ignored by the Canadian government. In the end, the book is well worth reading, especially as a starting point for additional folklore and historical research.”—Pauleena MacDougall Western FolkloreTable of ContentsContents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Treaties and Aquatic Parasites2 Kluskap and Aboriginal Rights3 The Saint Anne’s Day Mission4 Knowing How and Where to BeEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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  • Penn State University Beyond the Aesthetic and the AntiAesthetic

    Book SynopsisGathers historians, philosophers, critics, curators, and artists to explore the divisions in teaching, practice, and theorization of art created by the choice between continuations of Modernism, with its aesthetic values, and the many kinds of postmodernism, which privilege issues outside aesthetics, including politics, gender, and identity.Table of ContentsContentsSeries Preface Introduction, James ElkinsThe Seminars1 Introductory Seminar 2 The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1980s: Craig Owens’s “The Allegorical Impulse” 3 The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1990s: The Body 4 Theory and Criticism 5 Theoretical Positions: Critical Theory 6 Theoretical Positions: Rancière, Deleuze, Relational Aesthetics 7 Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory in Art History 8 Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory at Large9 Things Missing from This Book AssessmentsPreface, Harper Montgomery Grant Kester Alexander Dumbadze Geng Youzhuang Cary Levine Boris Groys Gregory Sholette Eva Schürmann Maria Filomena Molder Gary Peters Andrew McNamara Gordon Hughes Toni Ross Justin McKeown Timotheus Vermeulen Noah Simblist Rebecca Zorach Carrie Noland Robert Storr William Mazzarella Luis Camnitzer Jon Simons Angela Dimitrikaki Afterword, Gretchen Bakke Notes on the Contributors Index

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  • Penn State University David Hume Historical Thinker Historical Writer

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  • Penn State University Rousseau on Education Freedom and Judgment

    Book SynopsisExplores the writings of Rousseau, including Emile, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and On the Social Contract, focusing on the problem of judgment and its role in creating the condition for genuine self-rule.Trade Review“Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment is a splendid book. Denise Schaeffer treats an enormously complex question in a way that is simple, elegant, and altogether free of jargon. She first shows how each stage of Emile’s education is always double—meant seriously, but also designed to prepare for its own supersession—and then reveals this educational sequence also at work in Rousseau’s education of his reader. The quite considerable achievement of Schaeffer’s book is to employ the same sequence in her own writing, where the straightforward political issue with which she begins is gradually deepened and gives way to the question of what it is about the human soul that requires this sort of indirect education. Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment will be regularly read by Rousseau scholars and advanced students, but owing to the accessibility, and really the beauty, of its prose, it will inevitably find its way to a broader audience of students of philosophy and political theory at every level.”—Michael Davis,Sarah Lawrence College“Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment is a splendid book. Denise Schaeffer treats an enormously complex question in a way that is simple, elegant, and altogether free of jargon. This book will be regularly read by Rousseau scholars and advanced students, but owing to the accessibility, and really the beauty, of its prose it will inevitably find its way to a broader audience of students of philosophy and political theory at every level.”—Michael Davis,Sarah Lawrence College“Most of Rousseau's readers think that he fears complexity, ambiguity, and tension. Schaeffer presents Rousseau as an indispensable guide to confronting these unavoidable features of our personal and political lives. Schaeffer’s interpretation of Rousseau as a teacher of judgment is unprecedented but thoroughly convincing. Moreover, Schaeffer convinces me and will convince many others that we need Rousseau’s account of judgment to deepen our understanding of reflective citizenship. This book consequently makes an important contribution not only to the study of Rousseau but also to the study of politics.”—Jonathan Marks,Ursinus College“Man or citizen, nature or perfectibility, wholeness or alienation: Rousseau’s readers have puzzled over the dichotomies that run through his thought and that seem to offer irreconcilable alternatives or tragic choices. In her insightful book, Denise Schaeffer runs straight through the breach of these either/or dilemmas by examining how Rousseau confronts his reader with alternatives in order to educate the reader’s judgment in making the choices that necessarily confront us as beings that are, according to Rousseau, naturally good but corrupted in society. Schaeffer focuses on Emile, which Rousseau considered to be his best and most important work, by following the stages of Emile’s education in judgment at the hands of his tutor, a process that at the same time educates the reader. Schaeffer’s persuasive reading of Emile is itself an education in how to read Rousseau.”—John T. Scott,University of California, Davis“Denise Schaeffer’s new book directs long-overdue attention to the place of judgment in Rousseau’s political thought and presents a forceful challenge to those who believe that his conception of citizenship demands an unreflective identification with the community that precludes any exercise of critical judgment. Schaeffer presents a distinctive reading of Emile that brings out the profound significance of Rousseau’s frequent repetitions, his apparent contradictions, and his curious device of introducing multiple versions of his principal characters—of Emile, of Sophie, and even of himself. By such literary inventions, Schaeffer argues, Rousseau demonstrates the cultivation of judgment in his protagonists and cultivates his readers’ judgment. Readers who already possess the virtue of good judgment will want to read Schaeffer’s new book; readers lacking such judgment need to read it.”—Joseph R. Reisert,Colby College“Rousseau is often thought of as a thinker of incompatible extremes. Through her careful exposition of Rousseau’s understanding of judgment, Denise Schaeffer joins those who see him, instead, as a thinker who uses critical examination of these extremes to locate a middle ground. In particular, she demonstrates that in Emile (and elsewhere in his works), Rousseau portrays not one but several educations, using their twists and turns to develop the judgment of his readers. Schaeffer contributes to this development of judgment by offering fresh interpretations and provocative judgments of her own.”—Christopher Kelly,Boston College“That Schaeffer’s reconstruction of judgment in Rousseau’s work provides a fresh lens of analysis for engaging with some of the most contentious debates among Rousseau scholars, and simultaneously adds a new and important voice to the ongoing conversation about the role of judgment in democracy, speaks to the significance of this work to the field of political theory broadly speaking.”—Jennifer Einspahr The Review of Politics“Schaeffer’s book is original, insightful, and stimulating—offering a promising means by which to rescue Rousseau from those who would diminish his contributions to democratic theory.”—David Lay Williams The HistorianTable of ContentsContents AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations of Rousseau’s WorksIntroduction1 Judgment and the Standard of Nature2 Learning to Move: The Body, the Senses, and the Foundations of Judgment3 Books and Experience in the Education of Judgment4 Judgment and Pity5 Piety and Authority6 Judgment, Love, and Illusion7 Judgment and the Possibility of Partial Detachment8 Judgment and CitizenshipNotesIndex

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