Rousseau''s Social Contract - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor David Lay Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and the author of Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment (2007) and The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), as well as numerous articles in journals such as History of Political Thought, the Journal of the History of Ideas, The Journal of Politics, The American Journal of Political Science, and Polity. He has twice held fellowships at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as well as a fellowship at the DePaul Humanities Center. He was formerly Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Klappentext Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text. Zusammenfassung This book offers readers a student-friendly chapter-by-chapter reading of the Social Contract. Further! this is the only commentary on the Social Contract that offers an extended treatment of Rousseau's notorious general will! which stands as one of the most important concepts in the history of political thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Book I; 3. Book II; 4. Book III; 5. Book IV; 6. Conclusion; Appendix A. On the general will; Appendix B. On women in the Social Contract?

Product details

• Authors: David Williams, David Lay Williams, David Lay (Associate Professor Williams
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.2014
• EAN: 9780521197557
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19755-7
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Key; Cambridge Introductions to Key; Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, History of Western philosophy, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards