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

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

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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 call...

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Sonenscher, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:History of European Political and Constitutional Thought; 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and a Note on Citations
  • 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
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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