...This chapter looks into Adam Smith's political thoughts influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Bernard Mandeville. It mentions Smith's intellectual context in 1750 when reviewing Rousseau's Second Discourse and publishing the Theory of Moral Sentiments...

... Keith Tribe , Governing Economy: The Reformation of German Economic Discourse, 1750–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 119–31. 3 Kant, Political Writings, 47 . 4 Jean-Jacques Rousseau , “Abstract of Monsieur the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s Plan...

... social question international law morality Nagel Thomas perpetual peace Rawls John Shklar Judith Johann Gottlieb Fichte The Closed Commercial State constitutionalism Immanuel Kant Jean-Jacques Rousseau Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès commerce finance European states system Eighteenth-century...

... pauvre diable (The Poor Devil, 1760). Finally, the chapter discusses some debates between Louis-Sébastien Mercier and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on vitalist and contractual conceptions of political society. The sense of the phrase honnêtes gens that Mercier used in his...

...This book explores the history and nature of liberalism and includes the views of political thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, Isaiah Berlin, Alexis de Tocqueville, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and G.W.F. Hegel. Part 1 of the book deals with conceptual...

... and counterrevolutionary pressures, this “revolution” at Geneva prefigured or symbolized the greater revolution that was to come in France. It was, moreover, a revolution precipitated by the presence in the neighborhood of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It was here that the Social Contract produced its first explosion. Near...

...This chapter contends that Jean-Jacques Rousseau's analysis and appropriation of the Roman Republic deliberately undermines Machiavelli's efforts to reconstruct and promote institutions that both maximize the participation of poor citizens in popular governments and facilitate their efforts...

...This concluding chapter entertains the idea of Niccolò Machiavelli possibly dismissing Leo Strauss, J.G.A. Pocock, Quentin Skinner, and even Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in much the same manner that he disdained “the writers” who comprised the Western tradition of ancient and medieval political thought...

... industrialization labor functionality laziness Michel Foucault Pierre de Marivaux Jean-Jacques Rousseau Denis Diderot “Ours is the century of laziness,” announces Louis-Sébastien Mercier in Mon bonnet de nuit (My Nightcap, 1784). ¹ Looking back upon the literary...

... of the period, and reveals that crucial eighteenth-century texts did find value in idleness and nonproductivity. Fleshing out Enlightenment thinking in the works of Denis Diderot, Joseph Joubert, Pierre de Marivaux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Siméon Chardin, this book explores idleness in all its guises...

... of Machiavelli's political thought have either missed or deliberately obscured the radical extent of the Florentine's decidedly democratic form of republicanism. The chapter tackles suspect engagements with Machiavelli's political thought undertaken by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Strauss, and scholars affiliated...

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... the early 1960s until the death of Besterman in 1976, they exchanged recriminations about Rousseau. ancien régime Leigh Ralph Levasseur Thérèse —Correspondance complète de Jean Jacques Rousseau Leigh edition Rousseauism Brizard Gabriel Cloots Anacharsis French Revolution Rousseau Jean Jacques...

...This chapter discusses how idleness is one of the contradictory figures that weave through Jean-Jacques Rousseau's works. The problem of idleness pervades Rousseau's philosophical writings and dominates his autobiographical works. The chapter aims to trace the various paradoxes that inhabit...

... in the work of Montesquieu as well; the republican-universalist stance that goes back to Immanuel Kant, though certain arguments can be found in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; and finally the position linked with the “neo-Roman understanding of history” and the associated emphasis on the ideal of virtue...

..., Epicurean register. What Jean-Jacques Rousseau attempts, more strenuously than any other thinker of the period, is an extraordinary synthesis of Epicurean, Augustinian, and Stoic argumentative currents. In common with the modern Epicureans, Rousseau uses claims about self-love to illuminate all areas...

... and François de La Rochefoucauld. It also describes the transformation of moderation from a predominantly ethical concept into a prominent political virtue. Finally, it explores the views of authors such as David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on fanaticism in relation to moderation. Aristotle balance Clor...

...This chapter identifies Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the overwhelming cause of the polarisation of Genevan politics. It was claimed at Geneva and across Europe that Rousseau wanted to replace Christianity with a new religion, purged of the corruption and fakery that he perceived all around him. As one...