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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rousseau, Desire, and Modernity

PART ONE: FROM THE STANDARD OF NATURAL INDEPENDENCE TO THE CHALLENGES OF BOURGEOIS CAPITALISM

1 Perfectibility, Chance, and the Mechanism of Desire Multiplication in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality

2 An Alternative to Economic Man: The Limitation of Desire in Rousseau’s Emile

3 Rousseau’s Mandevillean Conception of Desire and Modern Society

PART TWO: DESIRE AND THE PROBLEM OF OTHERS IN MODERNITY

4 Desire and Will: The Sentient and Conscious Self in Locke and Rousseau

5 Openings that Close: The Paradox of Desire in Rousseau

6 Rousseau, Constant, and the Political Institutionalization of Ambivalence

PART THREE: SEX, KIDS, LOVE, AND THE CITY

7 ‘The Pleasures Associated with the Reproduction of Men’: Rousseau on Desire and the Child

8 Politics in/of the City: Love, Modernity, and Strangeness in the City of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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