Rousseau and Desire / / Mark Blackell, Simon Kow, John Duncan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Blackell, Mark ,; Duncan, John,; Kow, Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The nature and meaning of desire in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's work have thus far received little attention in Rousseau scholarship. Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity.The essays in this interdisciplinary collection combine close textual analyses with historical and intellectual inquiry to present a complex, yet concise portrayal of desire in Rousseau's political thought. Broad in scope, Rousseau and Desire opens new fields of inquiry by exploring Rousseau's formulation of desire as it relates to a range of subjects, including feminist phenomenology, political theory, natural reproduction, and early modern economic thought. As a whole, this important volume of essays ultimately affirms that the place of desire in Rousseau's work is integral to our understanding of this seminal thinker and, by extension, the notion of the self in modernity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rousseau, Desire, and Modernity / Blackell, Mark / Duncan, John / Kow, Simon -- PART ONE. From the Standard of Natural Independence to the Challenges of Bourgeois Capitalism -- 1. Perfectibility, Chance, and the Mechanism of Desire Multiplication in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality / Duncan, John -- 2. An Alternative to Economic Man: The Limitation of Desire in Rousseau's Emile / Roosevelt, Grace -- 3. Rousseau's Mandevillean Conception of Desire and Modern Society / Kow, Simon -- PART TWO. Desire and the Problem of Others in Modernity -- 4. Desire and Will: The Sentient and Conscious Self in Locke and Rousseau / Grigoropoulou, Vasiliki -- 5. Openings that Close: The Paradox of Desire in Rousseau / Froese, Katrin -- 6. Rousseau, Constant, and the Political Institutionalization of Ambivalence / Blackell, Mark -- PART THREE. Sex, Kids, Love, and the City -- 7. 'The Pleasures Associated with the Reproduction of Men': Rousseau on Desire and the Child / Duff, Brian -- 8. Politics in/of the City: Love, Modernity, and Strangeness in the City of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Morgenstern, Mira -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index