LEADER 03675nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910790580203321 005 20230126203341.0 010 $a0-300-17805-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300178050 035 $a(CKB)2550000001110126 035 $a(OCoLC)859158235 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10745248 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000956105 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12406603 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000956105 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10956755 035 $a(PQKB)10431313 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000175998 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421265 035 $a(DE-B1597)486258 035 $a(OCoLC)855894956 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300178050 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001110126 100 $a20111209d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAbandoned to ourselves$b[electronic resource] $ebeing an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, & aimed to uncover tension between those two perspectives-- creationism & social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense & which still impedes the human science of politics ... /$fPeter Alexander Meyers 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (549 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-17205-2 311 0 $a1-299-78823-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSociety as the ethical starting point for political inquiry -- The moral relevance of dependence -- Nature and the moral frame of society -- Morality in the order of the will. 330 $aIn this extraordinary work, Peter Alexander Meyers shows how the centerpiece of the Enlightenment-society as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice-was primarily composed and animated by its most ambivalent figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Displaying this new society as an evolving field of interdependence, Abandoned to Ourselves traces the emergence and moral significance of dependence itself within Rousseau's encounters with a variety of discourses of order, including theology, natural philosophy, and music. Underpinning this whole scene we discover a modernizing conception of the human Will, one that runs far deeper than Rousseau's most famous trope, the "general Will." As Abandoned to Ourselves weaves together historical acuity with theoretical insight, readers will find here elements for a reconstructed sociology inclusive of things and persons and, as a consequence, a new foundation for contemporary political theory. 517 3 $aAbandoned to ourselves :$ebeing an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, and aimed to uncover tensions between those two perspectives-- creationism and social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense and which still impede the human science of politics ... 606 $aPolitical sociology 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 676 $a306.2 700 $aMeyers$b Peter Alexander$01537322 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790580203321 996 $aAbandoned to ourselves$93786531 997 $aUNINA