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Author: James Farr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-16
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 1107057019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes essays by prominent political theorists and philosophers that trace the evolution of the general will from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Author: Hiroki Azuma
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Published: 2014-11-25
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1941220541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStay informed. Talk about the issues. Always be engaged. Liberal societies have encouraged their members to take part—or at least interest—in politics. Yet, even in developed nations where it is said to work, the democratic process as we know it routinely fails to give voice, on the one hand, and to appeal at all, on the other hand, to a good number of citizens. Whatever countervailing hopes the worldwide web gave rise to in its dawning years, far from restoring the “public sphere” of yore, the internet has completed its fragmentation. According to Japanese thinker Hiroki Azuma, the way forward must be sought through what network technology is actually good at: aggregating and processing the traces we leave (without always meaning to) every time we wade into the world of connectivity. Harking back to Rousseau and his idea of the general will, dropping by Freud and his discovery of the unconscious, taking inspiration from Google and the tenor of its innovations, revisiting Christopher Alexander and his highway planning, and making curious bedfellows of Twitter, Rorty, and Nozick, General Will 2.0 is a wild ride bound to delight not just citizens who “care” but those who find doing so to be increasingly difficult and false.
Author: Andrew Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-09-24
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521443227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx's notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area, Levine applies the tools and techniques of analytic philosophy to formulate and defend his radical, political program. The argument proceeds by filtering the ideals and institutions of Marxism through Rousseau's notion of the "general will." Once Rousseau's ideas are properly understood it is possible to construct a community of equals who share some vision of a common good that can be achieved and maintained through cooperation or coordination that is at once both voluntary and authoritative. The book engages with liberal theory in order to establish its differences from Rousseauean-Marxian political theory. This provocative book will be of particular interest to political philosophers and political scientists concerned with Marxism, socialist theory, and democratic theory.
Author: Patrick Riley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-27
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780521576154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniversally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.
Author: David Lay Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-01-13
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1107511607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Contract stands out as a masterpiece. Within a week of its publication in 1762 it was banished from France. Soon thereafter, Rousseau fled to Geneva, where he saw the book burned in public. At the same time, many of his contemporaries, such as Kant, considered Rousseau to be 'the Newton of the moral world', as he was the first philosopher to draw attention to the basic dignity of human nature. The Social Contract has never ceased to be read and debated in the 250 years since its publication. Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text. David Lay Williams offers readers a chapter-by-chapter reading of the Social Contract, squarely confronting these interpretive obstacles. The book also features a special extended appendix dedicated to outlining Rousseau's famous conception of the general will, which has been the object of controversy since the Social Contract's publication in 1762.
Author: Joshua Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2010-02-25
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0199581495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoshua Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in Rousseau's conception of the 'society of the general will'. He also explores Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian ideas that we are naturally good.
Author: JEAN-JACQUES. ROUSSEAU
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Published: 2025
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781398840331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Schmidtz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-02-01
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0199989435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt. The concept of freedom (and relatedly the notion of liberty) is ubiquitous but not everyone agrees what the term means, and the philosophical analysis of freedom that has grown over the last two decades has revealed it to be a complex notion whose meaning is dependent on the context. The Oxford Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. This volume includes 28 new essays by well regarded philosophers, as well some historians and political theorists, in order to reflect the breadth of the topic. This handbook covers both current scholarship as well as historical trends, with an overall eye to how current ideas on freedom developed. The volume is divided into six sections: conceptual frames (framing the overall debates about freedom), historical frames (freedom in key historical periods, from the ancients onward), institutional frames (freedom and the law), cultural frames (mutual expectations on our 'right' to be free), economic frames (freedom and the market), and lastly psychological frames (free will in philosophy and psychology).
Author: Geneviève Rousselière
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-25
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1316517551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.
Author: Matthew Simpson
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2006-04-10
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an interpretation of the theory of freedom in the Social Contract. The author gives a careful analysis of Rousseau's theory of the social pact, and then examines the kinds of freedom that it brings about, showing how Rousseau's individualist and collectivist aspects fit into a larger and logically coherent theory of human liberty.
