盧梭是講理性、科學的啟蒙年代人士；但是他卻是與同年代的人在思維、氣質「與眾不同」。可是近代西方「憲政民主」的發展過程中，盧梭的思維方式雖「與眾不同」，甚至是「特立獨行」，他的思想方法內涵，並未缺席。如有一種說法：沒有盧梭就不會有法國大革命，則啟蒙所「逼出」的近代憲政民主（含法國），盧梭的浪漫主義在這一場民主終究竟有何「特殊」，就是本課程想釐清，也希望選讀同學能從不同角度切入歷史軌跡。

Rousseau was a person from the Enlightenment era who emphasized rationality and science. However, his thinking and temperament were "different" from those of his contemporaries. However, in the development process of modern Western "constitutional democracy", although Rousseau's way of thinking was "different" and even "maverick", the connotation of his thinking methods was not absent. If there is a saying: without Rousseau, there would have been no French Revolution, then the modern constitutional democracy (including France) "forced" by the Enlightenment and Rousseau's romanticism are "special" in this democracy. This is what this course wants to clarify, and I hope that students who choose to read it can enter the historical trajectory from different angles.

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