The General Will ：The Evolution of a Concept

Publication subTitle ：The Evolution of a Concept

Author： James Farr;David Lay Williams;

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9781316913178

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107057012

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781107057012

Subject： D09 in the history of politics, political history

Keyword：政治理论

Language： ENG

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Includes essays by prominent political theorists and philosophers that trace the evolution of the general will from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The sixteen essays of The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept, written by prominent political theorists and philosophers, chronicle the evolution of the general will, which is most centrally associated with the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The sixteen essays of The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept, written by prominent political theorists and philosophers, chronicle the evolution of the general will, which is most centrally associated with the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although it originated in theological debates, the general will ultimately became one of the most celebrated and denigrated concepts emerging from early modern political thought. Jean-Jacques Rousseau made it the central element of his political theory, and it took on a life of its own during the French Revolution, before being subjected to generations of embrace or opprobrium. James Farr and David Lay Williams have collected for the first time a set of essays that track the evolving history of the general will from its origins to recent times. The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept discusses the general will's theological, political, formal, and substantive dimensions with a careful eye toward the concept's virtues and limitations as understood by its expositors and critics, among them Arnauld, Pascal, Malebranche, Leibniz, Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Kant, Constant, Tocqueville, Adam Smith and John Rawls. Part I. The General Will before Rousseau: 1. The general will before Rousseau: the contributions of Arnauld, Pascal, Malebranche, Bayle, and Bossuet Patrick Riley; 2. Malebranche's shadow: divine providence and general will in the Leibniz-Arnauld correspondence Steven Nadler; 3. Locke's ideas, Rousseau's principles, and the general will James Farr; 4. Spinoza and the general will David Lay Williams; 5. Freedom, sovereignty, and the general will in Montesquieu Sharon R. Krause; Part II. The Prehistory of the General Will: 6. Rethinking Rousseau's tyranny of orators: Cicero's On Duties and the beauty of true glory Daniel J. Kapust; 7. An American general will?: 'The bond of brotherly affection' in New England Andrew R. Murphy; Part III. The General Will in Rousseau: 8. The substantive elements of Rousseau's general will David Lay Williams; 9. Justice, beneficence, and boundaries: Rousseau and the paradox of generality Richard Boyd; 10. On the general will of humanity: global connections in Rousseau's political thought Sankar Muthu; 11. The general will in Rousseau and after Rousseau Tracy B. Strong; Part IV. The General Will after Rousseau: 12. Kant on the general will Patrick Riley; 13. The general will after Rousseau: Smith and Rousseau on sociability and inequality Shannon Stimson; 14. Benjamin Constant's liberalism and the political theology of the general will Bryan Garsten; 15. The general will after Rousseau: the case of Tocqueville Michael Locke McLendon; 16. Rawls on Rousseau and the general will Christopher Brooke. 'An original and wide-ranging inquiry into the general will before, in, and after Rousseau. There is no other work quite like this one, and it fills an important gap in the voluminous scholarly literature on the general will. Professors Farr and