This book examines Rousseau's ideas about the natural transparency
of human intention, the loss of this transparency in the opaque
cities of Europe, and the possibility of its restoration within
small republican communities. The author weaves together Rousseau's
provocative conjectures about transparency and opaqueness to
provide an original interpretation of Rousseau's political thought
and its bearing on several contemporary controversies. He also
argues that civic cooperation in Rousseau's model republic requires
mutual surveillance; that Hobbes's argument for a sovereign state
assumes the natural opacity of human intention; and that Adam
Smith's "invisible hand" cannot efficiently coordinate the
self-interested choices of opaque traders.
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