Abandoned to ourselves
Subtitle: being an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, & aimed to uncover tensions between those two perspectives: creationism and social evolution, that remain embedded in our common sense & which still impede the human science of politics--
By: Peter Alexander Meyers
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780300172058
Subjects: Political sociology; Political and social views
Description: In 'Abandoned to Ourselves', Peter Alexander Myers shows how the centrepiece of the Enlightenment - society as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice - was primarily composed and animated by its most ambivalent figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Society as the ethical starting point for political inquiry; title: The moral relevance of dependence; title: Nature and the moral frame of society; title: Morality in the order of the will.