Jean-Jacques Rousseau

✍ Scribed by Timothy O'Hagan (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 413
• Series: International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was hailed by Claude Lévi-Strauss as "the founder of the sciences of man". This collection of fourteen classic papers devoted to his work addresses the points of intersection between the moral and the political, the personal and the social. The volume is divided into five parts: The Critique of Progress and the Speculative Anthropology, The Naturalizing of Natural Law, The General Will and Totalitarianism, Anticipations of Game Theory and Strategies of Redemption. The articles are accompanied by an extensive, detailed introduction by the editor along with a selective bibliography.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction
PART I: THE CRITIQUE OF PROGRESS AND THE SPECULATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY: ROUSSEAU'S FIRST TWO DISCOURSES
1 Rousseau on the Arts and Sciences
2 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Founder of the Sciences of the Man
PART II: THE NATURALIZING OF NATURAL LAW
3 The Crisis of Modern Natural Right
4 Rousseau's Moral Realism: Replacing Natural Law with the General Will
PART III: THE GENERAL WILL AND TOTALITARIANISM
5 The Relation of Rousseau's Second Discours and the Contrat Social
6 Reflections on Rousseau: Autonomy and Democracy
7 Rousseau's General Will and the Problem of Consent
8 Rousseau's Two Concepts of Liberty
9 Individuals in Society: Rousseau's Republican Vision
10 Freedom, Dependence, and the General Will
PART IV: ANTICIPATIONS OF GAME THEORY
11 Games, Justice and the General Will
12 The Stag Hunt
PART V: STRATEGIES OF REDEMPTION
13 The Antidote in the Poison: The Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
14 Making Jean-Jacques
Index