TY - BOOK AU - Blackell,Mark AU - Duncan,John AU - Kow,Simon TI - Rousseau and Desire SN - 9781442685376 AV - B2138.D47.R687 2009 U1 - 194 PY - 2009/// CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,-1712-1778 KW - Desire (Philosophy) KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4672400 ER -