The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas

Rousseau’s Republican Community

Documentary May 30, 2014 31 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

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S1 E6: As the Enlightenment's greatest champion of equality, Swiss writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau endorsed the social contract - but his ideas differed from Hobbes and Locke in critical ways. Here, examine Rousseau's legacy and thought, which sought to structure modern civil society in a way that might recapture what he saw as the independence and equality of primitive society.

Documentary May 30, 2014 31 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2014
Run Time: 31 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.