Rousseau Haynor Flower (1913–1988)

Rousseau and Criticism Rousseau et la Critique

Henri Rousseau—known as Le Douanier Rousseau (1844–1910). The Snake Charmer (1907).

901 As the Gods began one world, and man another, So the snakecharmer begins a snaky sphere With moon-eye, mouth pipe. He pipes. Pipes green. Pipes water Sylvia Plath, " Snakecharmer " C ritics called him " naïve, " the term for painters with no formal training in art. Henri Rousseau, self-made late-bloomer from Laval, France, fit the definition. But his work proved that in art as in all ventur...

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development This paper studies the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions in form of a social contract that ensures a state of law and the absence of societal conflict are not assumed exogenously under certain political system...

Rousseau ’ s Whale Hunt ? Coordination among Big - Game

In spite of its common use as a tool for examining cooperation, the prisoner’s dilemma game does not conform to the reality of many socio-ecological contexts. Situations in which people engage in joint activities and maintain agreement in their preferences for outcomes are called “coordination games” by game theorists and “mutualism” by biologists. Coordination games are common, but cooperative...

Animal Pedagogy: The Origin of ‘Man’ in Rousseau and Herder

Animal metaphors and examples in texts of Rousseau and Herder appear as either ideal or abject ancestors and are thereby assimilated into the history of man. In spite of their differences, for both Rousseau and Herder, men become civilised by eating animals. And, their use of animal metaphors and illustrations belie the very distinction between man and animal that their invocation