Making citizens : Rousseau's political theory of culture / Zev M. Trachtenberg.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Trachtenberg, Zev M. (Zev Matthew), 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Contributions in political science.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Contributions in political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By analyzing Rousseau's conception of the general will, Zev Trachtenberg characterizes the attitude of civic virtue Rousseau believes individuals must have to cooperate successfully in society. Rousseau holds that culture affects political life by either fostering or discouraging civic virtue. However, while the cultural institutions Rousseau endorses would motivate citizens to obey the law, they would not prepare citizens to help frame it. Rousseau's view of culture thus works against his account of legitimacy, and Trachtenberg concludes that Rousseau's political theory as a whole is inconsistent

Contents:

Cover; Making Citizens: Rousseau's political theory of culture; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for works cited; Introduction Political success and the general will; THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IN POLITICS; THE GENERAL WILL; THE COMMONALITY OF THE GENERAL WILL; Chapter 1 An analysis of political failure; THE FORMULATION PROBLEM; THE ENFORCEMENT PROBLEM; AN OVERVIEW OF POLITICAL FAILURE; Chapter 2 The state of nature; THE STATE OF NATURE; NASCENT SOCIETY; Chapter 3 Society as it is and as it could be; CULMINATION OF NASCENT SOCIETY; THE PATH TO SOCIETY AS IT IS

SOCIETY AS IT COULD BE Chapter 4 Culture and political failure; THE CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY; THE CULTURE OF SOCIETY AS IT IS; Chapter 5 Culture and political success; GENEVA AS SOCIETY AS IT COULD BE; THE CIRCLES; REPUBLICAN FESTIVALS; THE BALLS; THE POLITICAL SUPERVISION OF CULTURE; Chapter 6 Culture and legitimacy; LEGITIMACY; APPLYING CONDORCET'S THEOREM TO ROUSSEAU; ROUSSEAU'S VOTERS; CONCLUSION; Appendix I: Moeurs as culture; Appendix II: Arrow's Theorem; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-95364-X

1-134-95365-8

1-280-33180-1

0-203-02428-1

0-203-32499-4

9780203024287

OCLC:

70754837