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University of California Press

The Longing for Total Revolution

Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

by Bernard Yack (Author)
Price: $49.95 / £42.00
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9780520375871
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5

About the Book

Bernard Yack seeks to identify and account for the development of a form of discontent held in common by a large number of European philosophers and social critics, including Rousseau, Schiller, the young Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Yack contends that these individuals, despite their profound disagreements, shared new perspectives on human freedom and history, and that these perspectives gave their discontent its peculiar breadth and intensity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

About the Author

Bernard Yack is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin.