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Rousseau : a free community of equals / Joshua Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Joshua, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Founders of modern political and social thought.
- Founders of modern political and social thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Political and social views.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 197 pages)
- Other Title:
- Free community of equals
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals Joshua Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in Rousseau's conception of the 'society of the general will'. The book also explainsRousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian idea that we are naturally good, shows why Rousseau thinks it is reasonable for
- Contents:
- Introduction; 1. A Free Community of Equals?; 2. The Society of the General Will; 3. Reflections on the General Will's Sovereignty; 4. The Natural Goodness of Humanity; 5. Democracy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-193) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-172287-1
- 1-282-49064-8
- 9786612490644
- 0-19-157387-6
- OCLC:
- 609859826
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