Rousseau is often portrayed as an educational and social reformer
whose aim was to increase individual freedom. In this volume David
Gauthier examines Rousseau's evolving notion of freedom, where he
focuses on a single quest: can freedom and the independent self be
regained? Rousseau's first answer is given in Emile, where he seeks
to create a self-sufficient individual, neither materially nor
psychologically enslaved to others. His second is in the Social
Contract, where he seeks to create a citizen who identifies totally
with his community, experiencing his dependence on it only as a
dependence on himself. Rousseau implicitly recognized the failure
of these solutions. His third answer is one of the main themes of
the Confessions and Reveries, where he is made for a love that
merges the selves of the lovers into a single, psychologically
sufficient unity that makes each 'better than free'. But is this
response a chimaera?
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