Rousseau and Desire / / Mark Blackell, Simon Kow, John Duncan.
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.T...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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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