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Rousseau

Name: Rousseau
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04533487
Price: 151.03 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Joshua Cohen
ISBN: 9780199581498

A Free Community of Equals

Joshua Cohen

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04533487

Publishers Oxford University Press, February 2010

In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents us with a forceful picture o... Full description

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In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals Joshua 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'. The book also explains Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian idea that we are naturally good, shows why Rousseau thinks it is reasonable for us to endorse that idea, and discusses how our natural goodness might make a free community of equals possible for us. And Cohen examines in detail Rousseau's picture of the institutions of a democratic society: why he emphasised the importance of political participation, how he argued against extreme inequalities, and what led him to embrace a civil religion as necessary for the society of the general will. This book provides an analytical and critical appraisal of Rousseau's political thought that, while frank about its limits, also explains its enduring power.