The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau's Social Contract

Herausgeber: Williams, David Lay; Maguire, Matthew W.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is freedom? What is equality? What is sovereignty? Few texts have offered more influential answers to these questions than Rousseau's Social Contract, and in this new Cambridge Companion, a multidisciplinary team of contributors provide new ways to navigate a masterpiece of political philosophy- and its animating questions.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 159mm x 237mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781108839303
• ISBN-10: 1108839304
• Artikelnr.: 68715149

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Matthew W. Maguire and David Lay Williams; 2. 'Every
legitimate government is republican': Rousseau's debt to and departure from
Montesquieu on republicanism John T. Scott; 3. What if there is no
legislator? Rousseau's history of the government of Geneva Christopher
Kelly; 4. Rousseau's republican citizenship: the moral psychology of the
social contract Robin Douglass; 5. Rousseau's negative liberty: themes of
domination and skepticism in the social contract Michael Locke McLendon; 6.
Rousseau's ancient ends of legislation: liberty, equality (& fraternity)
David Lay Williams; 7. Property and possession in Rousseau's social
contract Rafeeq Hasan; 8. Political equality among unequals Melissa
Schwartzberg; 9. On the primacy of peoplehood: nations and nationalism in
Rousseau's social contract Richard Boyd; 10. Rousseau on voting and
electoral laws Alexandra Oprea; 11. Rousseau and the puzzle of the Roman
republic Geneviève Rousselière; 12. Rousseau's case against democracy
Céline Spector; 13. Rousseau's dilemma or 'of civil religion' Steven B.
Smith; 14. Entreating the political: politics and theology in Rousseau's
social contract Matthew W. Maguire; 15. Civil religion and political unity:
social contract 4.8 Ryan Patrick Hanley.