Routledge philosophy guidebook to Rousseau and The social contract / Christopher Bertram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bertram, Christopher, 1958-

Series:

Routledge philosophy guidebooks.

Routledge philosophy guidebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Du contrat social.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Political scientists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Other Title:

Rousseau and The social contract

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

Rousseau's Social Contract is a benchmark in political philosophy and has influenced moral and political thought since its publication. Rousseau and the Social Contract introduces and assesses:*Rousseau's life and the background of the Social Contract*The ideas and arguments of the Social Contract*Rousseau's continuing importance to politics and philosophyRousseau and the Social Contract will be essential reading for all students of philosophy and politics, and anyone coming to Rousseau for the first time.

Contents:

Cover; Rousseau and The Social Contract; Copyright; CONTENTS; REFERENCE KEY TO CITED ROUSSEAU TEXTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 ROUSSEAU, THE MAN; CONFESSIONS; GENEVA; ADOLESCENCE; FROM VENICE TO VINCENNES; MUSIC; FICTION; CONDEMNATION; IN RETROSPECT; 2 HUMAN NATURE AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY; BASIC IDEAS; ROUSSEAU'S VOCABULARY OF THE PASSIONS; THE PROBLEM OF DEPENDENCE; THE NATURAL GOODNESS OF HUMANITY; THE ROLE OF ARTIFICE; WAS ROUSSEAU RIGHT?; THE PSEUDOCHRONOLOGY OF THE DISCOURSE ON INEQUALITY; 3 MAN IS BORN FREE (Book 1, Chs 1-2); THE TEXT; MEN AS THEY ARE - LAWS AS THEY COULD BE; MAN IS BORN FREE

THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE HUMAN RACE (Geneva Manuscript ch.2)4 FALSE THEORIES OF THE BODY POLITIC (Book 1, Chs 3-5); NATURAL SUBORDINATION (1.2); THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGER (1.3); OF SLAVERY (1.4); THE NEED FOR A FIRST CONVENTION (1.5); 5 THE SOCIAL PACT AND PROPERTY (Book, Chs 6-9); THE SOCIAL PACT; THE 'REMARKABLE CHANGE IN MAN' (1.8); FREEDOM; PROPERTY (1.9); 6 SOVEREIGNTY AND THE GENERAL WILL (Book 2, Chs 1-6); EARLIER MENTIONS OF THE GENERAL WILL; THE INALIENABILITY AND INDIVISIBILITY OF SOVEREIGNTY (2.1-2); THE GENERAL WILL AND THE 'WILL OF ALL' (2.3.1-2)

VOTING AND THE PROBLEM OF FACTION (2.3.3-4)A BRIEF NOTE ON CONDORCET'S JURY THEOREM; THE LIMITS OF SOVEREIGN POWER AND THE NATURE OF THE LAW (2.4, 2.6); 'UNIVERSALITY OF THE WILL AND OF THE OBJECT'; THE DEATH PENALTY (2.5); THE LAW (FURTHER ASPECTS) (2.6); MORE ON THE GENERAL WILL (4.1-2); SYNOPTIC REMARKS ON THE GENERAL WILL; 7 THE LAWGIVER, CULTURE AND MORALITY (Book 2, Chs 7-12); WHY THE LAWGIVER IS NEEDED; THE QUALITIES OF THE LAWGIVER; THE REGRESS PROBLEM; SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF EQUALITY; WHAT THE LAWGIVER DOES (AND DOES NOT) DO; HOW THE LAWGIVER DOES WHAT HE DOES

PERSUASION AND FREEDOMDENATURING; PSEUDOCHRONOLOGY; LEGITIMACY AND SOCIAL UNITY; 8 GOVERNMENT AND SOVEREIGN (Book 3); THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS TASK (3.1.1-7); ROUSSEAU'S MATHEMATICAL ANALOGIES (3.1-2); THE FORMS OF GOVERNMENT (3.3); DEMOCRACY AS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT (3.4); ARISTOCRACY AS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT (3.5); MONARCHY AS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT (3.6); MIXED FORMS (3.7); GEOGRAPHICAL DETERMINISM? (3.8-9); DEGENERATION AND COLLAPSE (3.10-11); THE WELL-ORDERED STATE; AGAINST REPRESENTATIVE SOVEREIGNTY (3.15); HOW DEMOCRATIC ARE ROUSSEAU'S INSTITUTIONS?; RECTITUDE, EFFICIENCY AND COMMONALITY

9 CIVIL RELIGION (Book 4, Ch. 8)THE TEXT; THE HISTORY OF RELIGION (4.8.1-14); TYPES OF RELIGION IN RELATION TO THE STATE (4.8.15-30); ROUSSEAU'S POSITIVE PROGRAMME (4.8.31-5); CONCLUSION; 10 THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN RETROSPECT; POLITICAL HOSTILITY; 'TOTALITARIANISM' AND THE GENERAL WILL; TOTAL ALIENATION; CONSTITUTIONALISM AND ELITE DOMINATION?; THE LAWGIVER, CIVIL RELIGION, DENATURING AND ENGULFMENT; THE PHILOSOPHICAL AFTERLIFE OF THE GENERAL WILL; IS THE SOCIAL CONTRACT CONTRACTARIAN?; ROUSSEAU'S ENDURING IMPORTANCE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p.205-209) and index.

ISBN:

0-203-48037-6

1-280-07408-6

1-134-63395-5

1-134-63396-3

9780203480373

OCLC:

475907992