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Rousseau's Constitutionalism - Austerity and Republican Freedom (Hardcover)
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Rousseau's Constitutionalism - Austerity and Republican Freedom (Hardcover)
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Despite Rousseau's legacy to political thought, his contribution as
a constitutional theorist is underexplored. Drawing on his
constitutional designs for Corsica and Poland, this book argues
that Rousseau's constitutionalism is defined chiefly by its
socially directive character. His constitutional projects are not
aimed, primarily, at coordinating and containing state power in the
familiar liberal-democratic sense. Instead, they are aimed at
fostering the social conditions in which a fuller sense of freedom
- understood broadly as non-domination - can be realised across all
social domains. And in turn, since Rousseau views domination as
being deeply embedded in complex social practices, his
constitutionalism is aimed at fostering a radical austerity -
social, economic and cultural - as its foil. In locating Rousseau's
constitutional projects within his social and political theory of
servitude and domination, this book will challenge the predominant
focus and orientation of contemporary republican theory. Leading
republican thinkers have drawn on the historical republican canon
to articulate a model of constitutionalism which is, on the whole,
'liberal' in focus and orientation. This book will argue that the
more communitarian orientation of Rousseau's constitutionalism -
that is, its socially-directive focus - stems from a sophisticated
and compelling account of the sources of unfreedom in complex
societies, sources which are ignored or downplayed by the
neo-republican literature. Rousseau embraces a communitarian social
politics as part of his constitutional project precisely because,
pessimistically, he views domination as being deeply embedded in
the social relations of the liberal order.
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