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。

Lusso is a rational and scientific person in the era of enlightenment; but he is "different from others" in his thinking and temperament from people of the same era. However, in the development of "policy and democracy" in the modern Western world, although Luso's way of thinking is "different from others" or even "exclusive", his connotation of his thinking methods is not absent. There is a saying: without Lusso, there would be no French Revolution. Initiate the modern political democracy (including France) that was "forced out" by Lusso. What is the "special" of Lusso's romanticism in this democracy? It is to clarify this course, and I also hope that students who choose to read can enter the historical story from different angles.

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