Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Editions and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Technology: Between Nature and Anti-Nature -- Rousseau, Lévi-Strauss's "Master" / Guenancia, Pierre -- Rousseau and the Authority of Nature / Knee, Philip -- Nature as Blind Space / Lojkine, Stéphane -- Rousseau and Technology: The Invention of a New Ecological Paradigm / Deneys-Tunney, Anne -- Rousseau and "The Mechanical Life" / Yamashita, Masano -- II. Politics and Ethics: Beyond the Nature/Culture Polarity -- Rousseau's Ethical Freedom / Audi, Paul -- Remarks on Rousseau's Dictatorship: Between Machiavelli and Carl Schmitt / Pasquino, Pasquale -- Politics and Religion in the Social Contract / Critchley, Simon -- Alienation and Freedom: Rousseau and Transcending Nature/Culture Dualism / Morgenstern, Mira -- Rousseau and the Sovereignty of the People / Zarka, Yves Charles -- III. The Philosophical Novel: Culture as Nature's Supplement -- Nature and Supplementation in Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse / Martin, Christophe -- Recomposing the Diffracted Text: Rousseau and the Metaphor of the Book of Nature / Nouis, Lucien -- Nature, Culture, and the Social Contract: Emile's point of view / L'Aminot, Tanguy -- Contributors -- Index |