Rousseau Today Interdisciplinary Essays

“This highly innovative and wide-ranging collection 'reloads' Rousseau as a resource for current social and political theory, covering both well-known topics and less familiar ones.” —William Outhwaite, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK “This scintillating volume...

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Other Authors: Harris, Neal (Editor), Bosseau, Denis (Editor), Pintobtang, Ployjai (Editor), Brown, Owen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Part I: Rereading Rousseau, Reclaiming History
  • Chapter 2: From fashioned to Fashioner: Rousseau and the Reclaiming of History
  • Part II: ‘Marxism and Critical Theory’
  • Chapter 3: The Most Absolute Authority’: Rousseau and the Tensions of Mass Sovereignty
  • Chapter 4: Althusser, Rousseau and the Politics of the Encounter
  • Chapter 5: The ambivalence of human sociality: Rousseau and recognition
  • Part III: ‘Transgression and Resistance’
  • Chapter 6: Olympe de Gouges: Gendering Rousseau
  • Chapter 7: Toward a Queer and Feminist Ecology in The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
  • Part IV: Sovereignty and Economic Democracy
  • Chapter 8: Sovereignty as Responsibility: Rousseau and the Dialectic of Practical Reason
  • Chapter 9: Economic Democracy and Rousseau’s Political Thought
  • Part V: ‘Rousseau and Intellectual History’
  • Chapter 10: Rousseau in Thai Constitutionalism
  • Chapter 11: Rousseau in Meiji Japan: the impact of French Republicanism and Nakae Chômin
  • Conclusion co-authored by Denis C. Bosseau, Neal Harris, and Ployjai Pintobtang (NB Owen Brown is no longer co-authoring this chapter)