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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page GENERAL CONTENTS DETAILED CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON SOURCES AND USES OF WORDS FOREWORD PART I “SOCIETY” AS THE ETHICAL STARTING POINT FOR POLITICAL INQUIRY

§1. “Le Tout Est Bien?” §2. “The Island of the Human Race” §3. An Influential Error §4. Anxieties of Influence: Dépendance as the Key to Société §5. “Le Mal” and “La Science des Moeurs” §6. Moral Dynamics §7. Rupture: The First Sign of the Will §8. Judgment: The Significance of the Will §9. Persons Versus Things §10. Consequences of Intersubjectivity §11. The Political Sociology of the “Golden Rule” §12. The Science of Dependence §13. The New Problem of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Appendix to Part One: The Text of Rousseau’s “Main Passage”

PART II THE MORAL RELEVANCE OF DEPENDENCE

A. Dependence and the “Formula for Happiness”

§14. Social Theory as Metadidactic: An Apostrophe §15. The Rule of “Not Speaking Against Yourself” §16. The Amplitude of Besoins §17. Nature as Untransformed Need and as Hypothesis of Liberté §18. “La Femme Est Homme” §19. The “Formula for Happiness” §20. Forces §21. Sometimes a Child Is Not a Child—Syllepsis and Theory §22. Dependence Articulates Bonheur §23. Dependence Is Not Weakness §24. Problematizing Dependence as Unhappiness: A Platonic Riff §25. Dependence Joins Weakness and Unhappiness §26. Demise and Reincarnation of the “Formula for Happiness” §27. Locating the Problem of Dependence: Uncertainty, Insecurity, Unhappiness §28. Pragmatic Recourse to Liberty

B. “Il y a Deux Sortes de Dépendance . . .”

§29. Reconfiguring the Problem: From Happiness Back to Dependence §30. Where Dependence Divides: The Absent Πολις §31. Résoudre: The Art of Breaking Things Down and Putting Them Back Together §32. Système §33. The Significance of Dependence-from-Things and Dependence-from-Persons §34. Morality and Disorder

PART III NATURE AND THE MORAL FRAME OF SOCIETY

§35. Another View On Société and Moeurs in the Eighteenth Century §36. Resolving the Problem of Dépendance: The Harmony of “Equality Before the Law” §37. The “Formula for Happiness” Returns, Writ Large, Between Nature and Société §38. The Character of Law as a Problem §39. Learning from Experience Complicates Dépendance §40. Tensions in the Classifications of Dépendance Intersect with the Conception of Law §41. The Issue of “Things” and “Nature” §42. Nature §43. Rousseau’s Modalities of Nature §44. The Immutability of Nature: Priority, Necessity, and Inflexibility §45. The Mutability of Nature: The Dialectic of Social Evolution §46. A Provisional Conclusion in Terms of Civic Happiness

PART IV MORALITY IN THE ORDER OF THE WILL

A. Ordre Comes to the Foreground

§47. Why Can’t We Be Happy? §48. Digression on the “Context” of Rousseau’s Words §49. The Architectonics of Metaphor §50. The “Main Passage” as Atlas

B. The Rhetorical Structure of Ordre

§51. The Commonplace of Ordre and the Common Sense of Dependence §52. Symbolic Forms of Ordre §53. The Performative of Ordre §54. The Modalities of Ordre

C. Ordre as the Deployment of Ambivalence

§55. Nature Inside Grace: The Original Will §56. Nature Outside Grace §57. Miracles: Between Nature and Grace? §58. Two Types of Ordre: Living with Contradiction?

D. Variations On the Will

§59. Will as Final Cause §60. The Ambivalence of Will §61. The Unity of Will §62. Does the Attribute of “Unity” Tend Away from Will? §63. Is Will the Gravity or the Entropy of Society? §64. Will: A Tenacious Symbolic Form for Man and God

E. The Gravity of Dependence

§65. The Primary Analytics of Dépendance §66. The Moral Valence of Dependence-from-Things §67. Nonnatural Dependence-from-Things §68. From Will to Dependence I: Ethical Sources of Order Revisited §69. From Will to Dependence II: Natural Sources of Order Revisited §70. From Will to Dependence III: The Ordinal Function of Order Revisited §71. From Will to Dependence IV: The Civic Implication of Order Revisited §72. Conclusion: The Human Remains

Afterword: A Preliminary Typology of Complex Dependence Notes Works Cited Index Footnotes

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 12 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 26 Chapter 28 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Chapter 59 Chapter 60 Chapter 61 Chapter 62 Chapter 63 Chapter 64 Chapter 65 Chapter 66 Chapter 68 Chapter 72

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