Cambridge companion to Rousseau's Social contract / edited by David Lay William, Depaul University, Chicago, Matthew W. Maguire, University of Pennsylvania.

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EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Descriptionpages cm.
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Other author/creatorWilliams, David Lay, 1969-
Other author/creatorMaguire, Matthew William.
Other author/creatorRousseau's social contract.
Other author/creatorCambridge University Press.
SeriesCCP Cambridge companions to philosophy
Contents Introduction -- "Every Legitimate Government is Republican": Rousseau's Debt to and Departure from Montesquieu on Republicanism -- What if There is no Legislator? Rousseau's History of the Government of Geneva -- Rousseau's Republican Citizenship: The Moral Psychology of The Social Contract -- Rousseau's negative liberty: Themes of domination and skepticism in The Social Contract -- Rousseau's Ancient Ends of Legislation: Liberty, Equality (& Fraternity) -- Property and Possession in Rousseau's Social Contract -- Political Equality Among Unequals -- On the Primacy of Peoplehood: Nations and Nationalism in Rousseau's Social Contract -- Rousseau on Voting and Electoral Laws -- Rousseau and the puzzle of the Roman Republic -- Rousseau's Case against Democracy -- Rousseau's Dilemma or "Of Civil Religion" -- Entreating the Political: Politics and Theology in Rousseau's Social Contract -- Civil Religion and Political Unity: Social Contract 4.8.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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