Rousseau And Law
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Author | : Thom Brooks |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780754624417 |
Jean-Jaques Rousseau stands as one of the most influential figures in the history of philosophy. Rousseau and Law presents for the first time in one collection the most important contemporary work exploring his many contributions to legal theory.
Author | : Austin Sarat |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-08-29 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0804782113 |
Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained, the procedures employed, and what understandings get attached to the act or person. Critiques of law often reveal how arbitrary its classificatory acts are, but no one doubts their power and consequence. This crucial new book considers the problem of law's physical control of persons and the ways in which this control illuminates competing visions of the law: as both a tool of regulation and an instrument of coercion or punishment. It examines various instances of punishment and regulation to illustrate points of overlap and difference between them, and captures the lived experience of the state's enterprise of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules. Ultimately, the essays call into question the adequacy of a view of punishment and/or regulation that neglects the perspectives of those who are at the receiving end of these exercises of state power.
Author | : Ethan Putterman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2010-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521765382 |
Examines Rousseau's contribution as a constitutionalist and builder of institutions, relating his major ideas to twenty-first century debates.
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Peace |
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Author | : Matthew Simpson |
Publisher | : Continuum |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2006-04-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Offers an interpretation of the theory of freedom in the Social Contract. The author gives a careful analysis of Rousseau's theory of the social pact, and then examines the kinds of freedom that it brings about, showing how Rousseau's individualist and collectivist aspects fit into a larger and logically coherent theory of human liberty.
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | : J M Dent & Sons Limited |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780525026600 |
After an old university friend and fellow archeologist's murdered, forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.
Author | : David Lay Williams |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-01-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107511607 |
If the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Contract stands out as a masterpiece. Within a week of its publication in 1762 it was banished from France. Soon thereafter, Rousseau fled to Geneva, where he saw the book burned in public. At the same time, many of his contemporaries, such as Kant, considered Rousseau to be 'the Newton of the moral world', as he was the first philosopher to draw attention to the basic dignity of human nature. The Social Contract has never ceased to be read and debated in the 250 years since its publication. Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text. David Lay Williams offers readers a chapter-by-chapter reading of the Social Contract, squarely confronting these interpretive obstacles. The book also features a special extended appendix dedicated to outlining Rousseau's famous conception of the general will, which has been the object of controversy since the Social Contract's publication in 1762.
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Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 160520398X |
Wise men, if they try to speak their language to the common herd instead of its own, cannot possibly make themselves understood. There are a thousand kinds of ideas which it is impossible to translate into popular language. Conceptions that are too general and objects that are too remote are equally out of its range: each individual, having no taste for any other plan of government than that which suits his particular interest, finds it difficult to realize the advantages he might hope to draw from the continual privations good laws impose. -from VII: "The Legislator" How does human nature impact politics and government? What is the "social contract," and what are our obligations to it? Is the "general will" infallible? What are the limits of sovereign power? What are the marks of "good government"? What constitutes the death of the body politic? How can we check the usurpations of government? Swiss philosopher JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778) was a dramatic influence on the French revolution, 19th-century communism, the American Founding Fathers, and much modern political thought, primarily through this 1762 work, his most influential. Here, he explores concepts of civil society, human sovereignty, and effective government that continue to be debated-and not yet settled-in the 21st century. A classic of modern thought, this is required reading for anyone wishing to be considered well educated.
Author | : Robin Douglass |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191038024 |
Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau's critique of Hobbes and to show how Rousseau sought to expose that much modern natural law and doux commerce theory was, despite its protestations to the contrary, indebted to a Hobbesian account of human nature and the origins of society. Throughout the book Douglass explores the reasons why Rousseau both followed and departed from Hobbes in different places, while resisting the temptation to present him as either a straightforwardly Hobbesian or anti-Hobbesian thinker. On the one hand, Douglass reveals the extent to which Rousseau was occupied with problems of a fundamentally Hobbesian nature and the importance, to both thinkers, of appealing to the citizens' passions in order to secure political unity. On the other hand, Douglass argues that certain ideas at the heart of Rousseau's philosophy—free will and the natural goodness of man—were set out to distance him from positions associated with Hobbes. Douglass advances an original interpretation of Rousseau's political philosophy, emerging from this encounter with Hobbesian ideas, which focuses on the interrelated themes of nature, free will, and the passions. Douglass distances his interpretation from those who have read Rousseau as a proto-Kantian and instead argues that his vision of a well-ordered republic was based on cultivating man's naturally good passions to render the life of the virtuous citizen in accordance with nature.
Author | : Joshua Cohen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199581495 |
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'. He also explores Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian ideas that we are naturally good.