Engaging with Rousseau : reaction and interpretation from the eighteenth century to the present

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1. 'A lover of peace more than liberty'? The Genevan rejection of Rousseau's politics Richard Whatmore 2. Adrastus versus Diogenes: Frederick the Great and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on self-love Avi Lifschitz 3. Sources of evil or seeds of the good? Rousseau and Kant on needs, the arts and the sciences Alexander Schmidt 4. Rousseau and French liberalism, 1789-1870 Jeremy Jennings 5. Rousseau and the redistributive republic: nineteenth-century French interpretations Jean-Fabien Spitz 6. Echoes of the social contract in Central and Eastern Europe, 1770-1825 Monika Baar 7. Reading Rousseau in Spanish America during the Wars of Independence (1808-1826) Nicola Miller 8. 'The porch to a collectivism as absolute as the mind of man has ever conceived': Rousseau scholarship in Britain from the Great War to the Cold War Christopher Brooke 9. Rousseau at Harvard: John Rawls and Judith Shklar on realistic utopia Celine Spector 10. Rousseau's dilemma Philip Pettit 11. The depths of recognition: the legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Axel Honneth Bibliography Index.