Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, David Lay, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The context, part 1: metaphysics and politics in Hobbes and Locke
  • The context, part 2: materialism and Platonism in modern Europe
  • Metaphysics and morality : the Platonism of the Savoyard Vicar
  • The general will : on the meaning and priority of justice in Rousseau
  • Of chains, caves, and slaves : allegory and illusion in Rousseau
  • Rousseau's system of checks and balances : the negative function of justice
  • Kant's conceptions of the general will : the formalist interpretation
  • The Foucauldian legacy : critiques without justice?