Abandoned to ourselves : being 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 the tensions between those two perspectives- creationism & social evolution- that remains embedded in our common sense & which still impedes the human science of politics--

Abandoned to ourselves : being 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 the tensions between those two perspectives- creationism & social evolution- that remains embedded in our common sense & which still impedes the human science of politics-- / Peter Alexander Meyers.

Author/creator	Meyers, Peter Alexander
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Description	xxiv, 524 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Political and social views. Political sociology.

Contents	"Society" 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2011048887
ISBN	9780300172058 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0300172052 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	JC179.R9 M49 2013	✔ Available	Place Hold