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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
I Myself, the Unique…
Childhood in General
Restricted Freedom
Early Adventures
Madame de Warens
The Traveller
Rousseau’s Psychology
Les Charmettes
The End of the Affair
Trying His Luck in Paris
Thérèse and the Children
The “Philosophes” and the Enlightenment
The Risks of Philosophizing
Rousseau’s Vision
Civilization and Modern Man
The First Discourse
The Falsehood of Civilization
What Good Are Luxury and the Arts?
Inconsistencies and Criticisms
Fame at Last
Rousseau’s Theory of Language
Derrida’s Deconstruction of Rousseau
Another Competition
What Is Human Nature?
Rousseau’s Version
The State of Nature
Laws of Nature
Nature and Natural
Natural Humans
Noble Savages and Orang-utans
Rousseau’s State of Nature
Natural Men and Hobbes
Natural Men and Grotius
Modem Men
Modern Society
Contracts and Property
The Chains of Property
Choosing Another Path
The Reaction of the Philosophes
Rousseau’s Refuge
The First Romantic
Sophie, a Real-Life Julie
La Nouvelle Héloïse
A Romantic Bestseller
The Moral Letters
Letter to D’Alembert
A Spartan View of Theatre
Rousseau’s Views on Art and Music
Émile, an Educational Novel
A Psychology of Childhood
Emile’s Education
Émile and Ethics
Sophie and the “Fair Sex”
A Successful Experiment?
Progressive Educationalists
Persecution for “Natural Religion”
Rousseau the Mystic
The Social Contract
Societies and Rules
Asking Awkward Questions
Obligations, Self-Interest and Contracts
Hobbes’ and Locke’s Views on the “Contract”
Problems with the Contract
The Meaning of Sovereignty
Voluntary Association
Rousseau’s View of Laws
Freedom and Obedience
What Is the “Contract”?
Organic Process
What is The General Will?
Collective Identity
Citizens of a Single Community
Obedience to Freedom
The Will of All
People as Sovereign
Forced to Be Free
Misguided Behaviour
The Sovereign Body and Government
Government By Aristocrats
The Legislator
Civil Religion: Deism
Against Christianity
Rousseau the Realist
The Test Case of Corsica
The Test Case of Poland
Criticisms of Rousseau’s Political Theories
“The General Will” Under Scrutiny
A Nebulous Concept
The General Will and the Law
A Romantic View of Communal Life
The Collectivist State
Public or Private Freedom?
What Makes Good Citizens?
Patriots or Hypocrites?
The Persecution of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau Attacks Geneva
Temporary Safety
On the Run
Visitors
Exile to England
Another Quarrel
Return of the Exile
Back in Paris
The Confessions
Beginning…
The Need for Confession
Nothing But the Truth
Like a Novel
Psychological Insight
The Meaning of Confessions
Confessions and the “System”
Rousseau’s Dialogues
“Who Is Not Against Me?”
Reason, Imagination and Romanticism
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
The Last Natural Man in Contemplation
The End
Rousseau the Many
The French Revolution
The Reign of Terror
Other Followers of Rousseau
Postmodernism and Rousseau
Perfect Citizens
Utopia or Dystopia?
The Totalitarian State
Romanticism
Rousseau, the Reluctant Romantic
The Role of the Artist
Rousseau’s Primitivism
Ecological Prophecy
The Costs of Civilization
Did Rousseau Have A “System”?
A System of Optimism
Paradoxes and Conclusion
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
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