The Cambridge companion to Rousseau's Social contract / edited by David Lay William, Depaul University, Matthew W. Maguire, Depaul University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, David Lay, 1969- editor.

Maguire, Matthew William, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Cambridge companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

What is freedom? What is equality? And what is sovereignty? A foundational text of modern political philosophy, Rousseau's Social Contract has generated much debate and exerted extraordinary influence not only on political thought, but also modern political history, by way of the French Revolution and other political events, ideals, and practices. The Social Contract is regularly studied in undergraduate courses of philosophy, political thought, and modern intellectual history, as well as being the subject of graduate seminars in numerous disciplines. The book inspires an ongoing flow of scholarly articles and monographs. Few texts have offered more influential and important answers to research questions than Rousseau's Social Contract, and in this new Cambridge Companion, a multidisciplinary team of contributors provides new ways to navigate this masterpiece of political philosophy- and its animating questions.

Contents:

Introduction

"Every Legitimate Government is Republican": Rousseau's Debt to and Departure from Montesquieu on Republicanism

What if There is no Legislator? Rousseau's History of the Government of Geneva

Rousseau's Republican Citizenship: The Moral Psychology of The Social Contract

Rousseau's negative liberty: Themes of domination and skepticism in The Social Contract

Rousseau's Ancient Ends of Legislation: Liberty, Equality (& Fraternity)

Property and Possession in Rousseau's Social Contract

Political Equality Among Unequals

On the Primacy of Peoplehood: Nations and Nationalism in Rousseau's Social Contract

Rousseau on Voting and Electoral Laws

Rousseau and the puzzle of the Roman Republic

Rousseau's Case against Democracy

Rousseau's Dilemma or "Of Civil Religion"

Entreating the Political: Politics and Theology in Rousseau's Social Contract

Civil Religion and Political Unity: Social Contract 4.8.

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9781108989770 (ebook)

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