Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the Politics of the Ordinary

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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction Morton Schoolman; Preface to the New Edition; Preface; I . Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the fear of the Author; Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Life; The Author as Personality; Why Confess?; Confession ad Constancy; Clearing the Ground: The First Discourse and the Question of Philosophy; The Language for the Human; 2. Rousseau and the Experience of Others; Citizen of Geneva; The Absence of the Thought of the Common; Looking Into Books; What Nature Is Not; Loving Oneself. The Self Encountering the Self and the OtherReading and Seeing; Nature and Denaturation; Music and the Public Realm; Alone, With Oneself; 3. The General Will and the Scandal of Politics; The Thought of the Common; The Nature of Political Society: The General Will; The Seductor Narcissist; Sovereignty; Representation and Time; Government; The Threat of Corruption; 4. The Education of an Ordinary Man; Education and the Philosopher; The Stages of a Life: Feeling; The Stages of a Life: Control and Morality; The Stages of a Life : Appearance and Convention; The Stages of a Life : Knowing Others. The Premise of Human CriticismSex and the Other; The Stages of a Life: Sex, Politics, and Virtue; 5. The Ends of Politics; The Remedy and the Illness; The Alternative of Transparency; Humanity and Transparency; The Deduction of Immanence; A Human Home; Who Has No Home?; Is Sex Human?; What Is the Legislator?; Ends to the Human; Notes (Chapters 1-5); Bibliographical Afterword; Name Index; Index of Major Discussions of Texts From Rousseau; About the Author