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Rousseau and Desire.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442685376
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rousseau and DesireDDC classification:
  • 194
LOC classification:
  • B2138.D47.R687 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rousseau, Desire, and Modernity -- PART ONE: FROM THE STANDARD OF NATURAL INDEPENDENCE TO THE CHALLENGES OF BOURGEOIS CAPITALISM -- 1 Perfectibility, Chance, and the Mechanism of Desire Multiplication in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality -- 2 An Alternative to Economic Man: The Limitation of Desire in Rousseau's Emile -- 3 Rousseau's Mandevillean Conception of Desire and Modern Society -- PART TWO: DESIRE AND THE PROBLEM OF OTHERS IN MODERNITY -- 4 Desire and Will: The Sentient and Conscious Self in Locke and Rousseau -- 5 Openings that Close: The Paradox of Desire in Rousseau -- 6 Rousseau, Constant, and the Political Institutionalization of Ambivalence -- PART THREE: SEX, KIDS, LOVE, AND THE CITY -- 7 'The Pleasures Associated with the Reproduction of Men': Rousseau on Desire and the Child -- 8 Politics in/of the City: Love, Modernity, and Strangeness in the City of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rousseau, Desire, and Modernity -- PART ONE: FROM THE STANDARD OF NATURAL INDEPENDENCE TO THE CHALLENGES OF BOURGEOIS CAPITALISM -- 1 Perfectibility, Chance, and the Mechanism of Desire Multiplication in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality -- 2 An Alternative to Economic Man: The Limitation of Desire in Rousseau's Emile -- 3 Rousseau's Mandevillean Conception of Desire and Modern Society -- PART TWO: DESIRE AND THE PROBLEM OF OTHERS IN MODERNITY -- 4 Desire and Will: The Sentient and Conscious Self in Locke and Rousseau -- 5 Openings that Close: The Paradox of Desire in Rousseau -- 6 Rousseau, Constant, and the Political Institutionalization of Ambivalence -- PART THREE: SEX, KIDS, LOVE, AND THE CITY -- 7 'The Pleasures Associated with the Reproduction of Men': Rousseau on Desire and the Child -- 8 Politics in/of the City: Love, Modernity, and Strangeness in the City of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity.

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