Rousseau and Geneva : from the first discourse to the social contract, 1749-1762 / Helena Rosenblatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenblatt, Helena, 1961- author.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 46.

Ideas in context ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Calvinism--History.

Calvinism.

Geneva (Switzerland)--Intellectual life--18th century.

Geneva (Switzerland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Rousseau & Geneva

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects of Genevan socio-economic, political and religious thought in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this way Dr Rosenblatt effectively contextualizes the development of Rousseau's thought from the First Discourse through to the Social Contract. Over time Rousseau has been adopted as a French thinker, but this adoption obscures his Genevan origin. Dr Rosenblatt points out that he is, in fact, a Genevan thinker and illustrates that Rousseau's classical republicanism, his version of natural law theory, his civil religion and his hostility to the arguments of doux commerce theorists are all responses to the political use of such arguments in Geneva. The author also points out that it was this relationship with Geneva that played an integral part in his development into an original political thinker.

Contents:

Introduction. Rousseau in a Genevan context

1. The formation of a "citizen of Geneva"

2. Rousseau becomes Rousseau, 1751-1754. Geneva, doux commerce, and Rousseau from the First to the Second Discourse

3. Rousseau and natural law: the context

4. Rousseau and natural law: the Second Discourse

5. The "invisible chain": Rousseau and Geneva from the Second Discourse to the Social Contract

6. The Social Contract.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-58293-5

0-511-00281-5