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Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment
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Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment

Author: David Lay Williams
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Lay Williams
ISBN: 9780271029979 0271029978
OCLC Number: 85894562
Description: xxxiii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
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?
Responsibility: David Lay Williams ; foreword by Patrick Riley.

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