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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; Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Lay Williams
ISBN: 9780271029979 0271029978 0271029986 9780271029986
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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