Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment / David Lay Williams ; foreword by Patrick Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, David Lay, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2007]

Contents:

The context, part 1: metaphysics and politics in Hobbes and Locke

The context, part 2: materialism and Platonism in modern Europe

Metaphysics and morality : the Platonism of the Savoyard Vicar

The general will : on the meaning and priority of justice in Rousseau

Of chains, caves, and slaves : allegory and illusion in Rousseau

Rousseau's system of checks and balances : the negative function of justice

Kant's conceptions of the general will : the formalist interpretation

The Foucauldian legacy : critiques without justice?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-291) and index.

"Frequently cited works": pages [xiii]-xiv.

ISBN:

9780271029979

0271029978

OCLC:

85894562