Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Division of Labour, The Politics of the Imagination and The Concept of Federal Government

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This is a book about why Jean-Jacques Rousseau can be seen as one of the first theorists of the concept of civil society and a key source of the idea of a federal system. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and a Note on Citations Chapter 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Marvellous in Life 1 The Power of Prose 2 Rousseau and Burke 3 An Elusive System 4 The Problem of Unity 5 A Cumulative Process 6 The Mystery of Federalism Chapter 2 The Fénelon Problem 1 The Many Dimensions of Reform 2 Rousseau and Montesquieu 3 Markets, Politics and Reform 4 Rousseau and the Fénelon Problem Chapter 3 The Division of Labour and the Political Economy of the General Will 1 Population and Subsistence Goods 2 Perfectibility, Autonomy and the Idea of a Federal Government 3 The Social Contract 4 Gradated Promotion and the General Will 5 Taxation and Representation 6 The Federal Dimension of Rousseau’s Thought Chapter 4 The Politics of the Imagination 1 The Language of Signs 2 The Origins of the Imagination 3 The Genealogy of Love 4 The Imagination and the Social Contract Chapter 5 Conscience and the Structure of Federal Government 1 A Simulacrum of Virtue 2 The Origins of Conscience 3 The Power of Enchantment Chapter 6 Rousseau’s Legacy 1 Theodicies and Their Properties 2 From Metapolitics to Civil Society 3 Theories of the Political State 4 Lorenz von Stein 5 Rudolf von Jhering 6 The Concept of Sovereignty 7 Otto von Gierke 8 Epilogue: the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem in Historical Context Bibliography Index