Joshua Cohen: Rousseau | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780199581504 | Rousseau | A Free Community of Equals | Joshua Cohen | Taschenbuch

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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.

Über den Autor

Joshua Cohen taught political philosophy at MIT from 1977-2006, and now teaches at Stanford in political science, philosophy, and law, where he is Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1: A Free Community of Equals?

2: The Society of the General Will

3: Reflections on the General Will's Sovereignty

4: The Natural Goodness of Humanity

5: Democracy

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199581504
ISBN-10:	0199581509
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cohen, Joshua
Redaktion:	Philip, Mark
Hersteller:	OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Joshua Cohen
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.02.2010
Gewicht:	0,327 kg