Butterwick - Pawlikowski, RJ; (2016) Challenges for the Commonwealth: The Counsel of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. XVIII amžiaus studijos , 3 pp. 33-42.

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Abstract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne et sur sa réformation projettée was written in 1771 at the request of the confederates of Bar and published for the first time in 1782. It was published in a Polish translation by Maurycy Franciszek Karp in 1789. By far the best analysis of the sources and arguments of the Considérations remains Jerzy Michalski’s Rousseau i sarmacki republikanizm, published in 1977, which has until now made no significant impact on worldwide Rousseau studies. Michalski showed the extent and limits of the consanguinity between Rousseau’s doctrine and Polish-Lithuanian republicanism. The present article argues that Rousseau threw down a fundamental challenge to his readers: did Poles want to be themselves or did they want to be modern Europeans? He counselled a reconception of the Polish—and by extension any—nation on the basis of a fundamental rejection of enlightened and cosmopolitan modernity.

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