02851nam 2200553 450 991080906790332120230124202058.090-04-42033-910.1163/9789004420335(CKB)4920000000126909(OCoLC)1136964224(nllekb)BRILL9789004420335(MiAaPQ)EBC6012285(EXLCZ)99492000000012690920200303d2020 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierJean-Jacques Rousseau the division of labour, the politics of the imagination and the concept of federal government /by Michael SonenscherLeiden ;Boston :Brill,[2020]©20201 online resourceHistory of European political and constitutional thought ;Volume 290-04-39214-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and a Note on Citations -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Marvellous in Life -- The Fénelon Problem -- The Division of Labour and the Political Economy of the General Will -- The Politics of the Imagination -- Conscience and the Structure of Federal Government -- Rousseau’s Legacy -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.This is a book about the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Its aim is to explain why, for Rousseau, thinking about politics – whether as democratic sovereignty, representative government, institutionalised power, imaginative vision or a moment of decision – lay at the heart of what he called his “grand, sad system.” This book tracks the gradual emergence of the various components of that system and describes the connections between them. The result is a new and fresh interpretation of one of Europe’s most famous political thinkers, showing why Rousseau can be seen as one of the first theorists of the modern concept of civil society and a key source of the problematic modern idea of a federal system.History of European Political and Constitutional Thought;2.Political scienceHistory18th centuryGeneral willSocial contractCivil societyFederal governmentPolitical scienceHistoryGeneral will.Social contract.Civil society.Federal government.320.01Sonenscher Michael249489MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809067903321Jean-Jacques Rousseau3909247UNINA