Preface. 1. Introduction 2. The Social Contract 3. The General Will 4. Popular Sovereignty 5. Government 6. Rousseau’s Principles in American Practice 7. Conclusion: Implications for contemporary politics
Biography
Joseph R. Reisert is Harriet S. and George C. Wiswell, Jr., Professor of American Constitutional Law at Colby College (Waterville, Maine), where he teaches political theory and American constitutional law in the Government Department. His first book was Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Friend of Virtue (2003). His most recent publications are "Rousseau’s Political Science," in The Rousseauian Mind, edited by Christopher Kelly and Eve Grace (Routledge, 2019), and "Knave, Patriot, or Factionist: Three Rousseauian Hypotheses About the Election of President Trump," in Trump and Political Philosophy: Leadership, Statesmanship, and Tyranny, edited by Angel Jaramillo Torres and Marc Benjamin (Sable, 2018).
