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Rousseau - A Free Community of Equals (Hardcover)
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Rousseau - A Free Community of Equals (Hardcover)
Series: Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought
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In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in
which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses
on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals Joshua
Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community
all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in
Rousseau's conception of the 'society of the general will'. The
book also explains Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian
idea that we are naturally good, shows why Rousseau thinks it is
reasonable for us to endorse that idea, and discusses how our
natural goodness might make a free community of equals possible for
us. And Cohen examines in detail Rousseau's picture of the
institutions of a democratic society: why he emphasised the
importance of political participation, how he argued against
extreme inequalities, and what led him to embrace a civil religion
as necessary for the society of the general will. This book
provides an analytical and critical appraisal of Rousseau's
political thought that, while frank about its limits, also explains
its enduring power.
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