Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Division of Labour, The Politics of the Imagination and The Concept of Federal Government (History of European Political and Constitutional Thought, #2)

by Michael Sonenscher

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This is a book about the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Its aim is to explain why, for Rousseau, thinking about politics - whether as democratic sovereignty, representative government, institutionalised power, imaginative vision or a moment of decision - lay at the heart of what he called his "grand, sad system." This book tracks the gradual emergence of the various components of that system and describes the connections between them. The result is a new and fresh interpretation of one of Europe's most famous political thinkers, showing why Rousseau can be seen as one of the first theorists of the modern concept of civil society and a key source of the problematic modern idea of a federal system.
  • ISBN10 9004392149
  • ISBN13 9789004392144
  • Publish Date 16 January 2020 (first published 13 January 2020)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill