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  • The restlessness of ‘being’ Rousseau’s protean sentiment of existence

    - Eve Grace, “The restlessness of ‘being’ Rousseau's protean sentiment of existence,” History of European Ideas, Vol. 27, Issue 2, 2001.  
    Excerpt: The question of the sentiment of existence is central to Rousseau’s thought. For Rousseau’s apparent promise that salvation is to be found on earth for whomever is able to experience it appears as the heart of his claim that man is… More