Rousseau and desire / edited by Mark Blackell, John Duncan, and Simon Kow.
| Other author | Blackell, Mark, 1967- |
| Other author | Kow, Simon, 1974- |
| Other author | Duncan, John, 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2009. |
| Description | vi, 206 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : Rousseau, desire, and modernity / Mark Blackell, John Duncan, and Simon Kow -- Pt. 1, From the standard of natural independence to the challenges of bourgeois capitalism. Perfectibility, chance, and the mechanism of desire multiplication in Rousseau's Discourse on inequality / John Duncan ; An alternative to economic man : the limitation of desire in Rousseau's Emile / Grace Roosevelt ; Rousseau's Mandevillean conception of desire and modern society / Simon Kow -- Pt. 2, Desire and the problem of others in modernity. Desire and will : the sentient and conscious self in Lock and Rousseau / Vasiliki Grigoropoulou ; Opening that close : the paradox of desire in Rousseau / Katrin Froese ; Rousseau, constant, and the political institutionalization of ambivalence / Mark Blackell -- Pt. 3, Sex, kids, love, and the city. 'The pleasures associated with the reproduction of men' : Rousseau on desire and the child / Brian Duff ; Politics in/of the city : love, modernity, and strangeness in the city of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Mira Morgenstern. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-194) and index. |
| ISBN | 9781442640412 |
| ISBN | 1442640413 |