附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-129) and index.
Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction and method; 1 The politics of the soul: the life and times of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; 2 The disenchantment of the world; 3 Checks, balances and popular participation: Rousseau as a constitutionalist; 4 A civic profession of faith: Rousseau's and nationalism; 5 The last of the ancients the first of the moderns?; 6 Epilogue: in the beginning was song; Chronology of Rousseau's life (1712-78); Bibliography; Index.
摘要:The first comprehensive analysis of Rousseau's political philosophy for a generation, this timely book rejects the authoritarian reading of Rousseau and establishes him as an anti-revolutionary closer to Burke than to Robespierre.
