Making citizens : Rousseau's political theory of culture / Zev M. Trachtenberg
1993, First Edition. London ; New York : Routledge. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432742
ISBN: 0415040639
Physical description; 307 pages. Notes; Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index. Contents; Cover; Making Citizens: Rousseau's political theory of culture; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for works cited; Introduction Political success and the general will; THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IN POLITICS; THE GENERAL WILL; THE COMMONALITY OF THE GENERAL WILL; Chapter 1 An analysis of political failure; THE FORMULATION PROBLEM; THE ENFORCEMENT PROBLEM; AN OVERVIEW OF POLITICAL FAILURE; Chapter 2 The state of nature; THE STATE OF NATURE; NASCENT SOCIETY; Chapter 3 Society as it is and as it could be; CULMINATION OF NASCENT SOCIETY; THE PATH TO SOCIETY AS IT IS. SOCIETY AS IT COULD BE Chapter 4 Culture and political failure; THE CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY; THE CULTURE OF SOCIETY AS IT IS; Chapter 5 Culture and political success; GENEVA AS SOCIETY AS IT COULD BE; THE CIRCLES; REPUBLICAN FESTIVALS; THE BALLS; THE POLITICAL SUPERVISION OF CULTURE; Chapter 6 Culture and legitimacy; LEGITIMACY; APPLYING CONDORCET'S THEOREM TO ROUSSEAU; ROUSSEAU'S VOTERS; CONCLUSION; Appendix I: Moeurs as culture; Appendix II: Arrow's Theorem; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Subjects; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778 Contributions in political science. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778 Political and social views. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778. Political science Philosophy. Political science Theory of. Politics, Practical Theory of. Political science. Political culture. Political and social views.
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