Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I The Critique of Progress and the Speculative Anthropology: Rousseau's First Two Discourses: Rousseau on the arts and sciences, Victor Gourevitch; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, founder of the sciences of the man, Claude Lévi-Strauss. Part II The Naturalizing of Natural Law: The crisis of modern natural right (Rousseau), Leo Strauss; Rousseau's moral realism: replacing natural law with moral realism, Arthur M. Melzer. Part III The General Will and Totalitarianism: The relation of Rousseau's 2nd Discours and the Contrat Social, Lester G Crocker; Reflections on Rousseau: autonomy and democracy, Joshua Cohen; Rousseau's general will and the problem of consent, W.T. Jones; Rousseau's 2 concepts of liberty, Robert Wokler; Individuals in society: Rousseau's republican vision, John Hope Mason; Freedom, dependence and the general will, Frederick Neuhouser. Part IV Anticipations of Game Theory: Games, justice and the general will, W.G. Runciman and Amartya K. Sen; 'The stag hunt', Brian Skyrms. Part V Strategies of Redemption: The antidote in the poison: the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Starobinski; Making Jean-Jacques, David Gauthier; Index.

Biography

Timothy O'Hagan is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, UK. He is author of Rousseau (Routledge, Arguments of the Philosophers, 1999, 2003).