General Will (eBook, PDF)

The Evolution of a Concept
Redaktion: Farr, James

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Produktbeschreibung

Although it originated in theological debates, the general will ultimately became one of the most celebrated and denigrated concepts emerging from early modern political thought. Jean-Jacques Rousseau made it the central element of his political theory, and it took on a life of its own during the French Revolution, before being subjected to generations of embrace or opprobrium. James Farr and David Lay Williams have collected for the first time a set of essays that track the evolving history of the general will from its origins to recent times. The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept discusses the general will's theological, political, formal, and substantive dimensions with a careful eye toward the concept's virtues and limitations as understood by its expositors and critics, among them Arnauld, Pascal, Malebranche, Leibniz, Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Kant, Constant, Tocqueville, Adam Smith and John Rawls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316236550
• Artikelnr.: 52969218

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The General Will before Rousseau: 1. The general will before
Rousseau: the contributions of Arnauld, Pascal, Malebranche, Bayle, and
Bossuet Patrick Riley; 2. Malebranche's shadow: divine providence and
general will in the Leibniz-Arnauld correspondence Steven Nadler; 3.
Locke's ideas, Rousseau's principles, and the general will James Farr; 4.
Spinoza and the general will David Lay Williams; 5. Freedom, sovereignty,
and the general will in Montesquieu Sharon R. Krause; Part II. The
Prehistory of the General Will: 6. Rethinking Rousseau's tyranny of
orators: Cicero's On Duties and the beauty of true glory Daniel J. Kapust;
7. An American general will?: 'The bond of brotherly affection' in New
England Andrew R. Murphy; Part III. The General Will in Rousseau: 8. The
substantive elements of Rousseau's general will David Lay Williams; 9.
Justice, beneficence, and boundaries: Rousseau and the paradox of
generality Richard Boyd; 10. On the general will of humanity: global
connections in Rousseau's political thought Sankar Muthu; 11. The general
will in Rousseau and after Rousseau Tracy B. Strong; Part IV. The General
Will after Rousseau: 12. Kant on the general will Patrick Riley; 13. The
general will after Rousseau: Smith and Rousseau on sociability and
inequality Shannon Stimson; 14. Benjamin Constant's liberalism and the
political theology of the general will Bryan Garsten; 15. The general will
after Rousseau: the case of Tocqueville Michael Locke McLendon; 16. Rawls
on Rousseau and the general will Christopher Brooke.