Rousseau and desire /
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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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Rousseau, desire, and modernity / Mark Blackell, John Duncan, and Simon Kow
- pt. 1, From the standard of natural independence to the challenges of bourgeois capitalism. Perfectibility, chance, and the mechanism of desire multiplication in Rousseau's Discourse on inequality / John Duncan ; An alternative to economic man : the limitation of desire in Rousseau's Emile / Grace Roosevelt ; Rousseau's Mandevillean conception of desire and modern society / Simon Kow
- pt. 2, Desire and the problem of others in modernity. Desire and will : the sentient and conscious self in Lock and Rousseau / Vasiliki Grigoropoulou ; Opening that close : the paradox of desire in Rousseau / Katrin Froese ; Rousseau, constant, and the political institutionalization of ambivalence / Mark Blackell
- pt. 3, Sex, kids, love, and the city. 'The pleasures associated with the reproduction of men' : Rousseau on desire and the child / Brian Duff ; Politics in/of the city : love, modernity, and strangeness in the city of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Mira Morgenstern.