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Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the division of labour, the politics of the imagination and the concept of federal government / by Michael Sonenscher

Author:
Sonenscher, Michael
Published:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Physical Description:
1 online resource
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Contents:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the marvellous in life -- The Fénelon problem -- The division of labour and the political economy of the general will -- The politics of the imagination -- Conscience and the structure of federal government -- Rousseau's legacy -- Otto von Gierke -- Epilogue: The Jean-Jacques Rousseau problem in historical context.
Summary:
"This is a book about the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Its aim is to explain why, for Rousseau, thinking about politics - whether as democratic sovereignty, representative government, institutionalised power, imaginative vision or a moment of decision - lay at the heart of what he called his "grand, sad system." This book tracks the gradual emergence of the various components of that system and describes the connections between them. The result is a new and fresh interpretation of one of Europe's most famous political thinkers, showing why Rousseau can be seen as one of the first theorists of the modern concept of civil society and a key source of the problematic modern idea of a federal system"--
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ISBN:
9789004420335 (ebook)
9004420339
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note:
Gift of the Laurent LeSage Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature
Laurent LeSage Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature
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