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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the foundations of modern political thought
Modern Intellectual History 14 (2):311-337 (2017)
Abstract
This essay is about the relationship between the moral and political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the related concepts of autonomy, social science and industrialism. Its aim is to show why these three concepts throw more light both on Rousseau's theory of the relationship between democratic sovereignty and representative government, and on his explanation of the sharply counterintuitive historical trajectory followed by democracy in its passage from ancient to modern times.My notes
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