List of Contributors
Abbreviations in references
Introduction / Christopher Kelly and Eve Grace
I. Predecessors and contemporaries
1. Rousseau's Socratic 'Sentimentalism' / Eve Grace
2. Rousseau's Debt to Plutarch / Rebecca Kingston
3. Rethinking the Source of Evil in Rousseau's Confessions / Wing Kwan Anselm Lam
4. Rousseau and Machiavelli / Vickie B. Sullivan
5. 'Men as they are and laws as they can be': Legitimacy and the State of Nature in Rousseau and Hobbes
Susan Meld Shell
6. John Locke's Influence on Rousseau / Lee Ward
7. Rousseau and Leibniz: Genealogy vs. Theodicy / Christophe Litwin
8. Rousseau and Fénelon / Ryan Patrick Hanley
9. Virtue and the Ancient City: Rousseau's Debt to Montesquieu / Andrea Radasanu
10. Rousseau and Diderot: Materialism and its Discontents / Celine Spector
11. Rousseau and Hume: The Philosophical Quarrel / Dennis C. Rasmussen
12. Rousseau and Adam Smith on Sincerity and Authenticity / John McHugh
13. How Would Rousseau Have Answered the Scots? / Mark Hulliung
II. The Major Texts of the System
14. The Discourse on the Sciences and Arts / Jeff J.S. Black
15. Discourse on the Origin Inequality / Christopher Kelly
16. Emile; or On Education / John T. Scott
17. The Social Contract / Matthew C. Simpson
III. Autobiographical Texts
18. Rousseau's Confessions: A Pattern for Living / Laura K. Field
19. Reflecting on the Outlaw: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques in Light of the Greek Tragedians / Jean-François Perrin
20. To Walk, To Dream, To Philosophize / Pierre Manent
IV. Nature, Reason, and Society
21. Rousseau's Responses to Human Progress / Timothy O'Hagan
22. Rousseau and Sciences / Christophe Van Staen
23. From Nature to Society / Daniel Cullen
24. Moral Motivation and Rhetoric / Denise Schaeffer
25. Contradictions: Thought at Risk / Claude Habib
26. On the Naturalness of Friendship and Family / John Warner
27. Rousseau on Music: A Case of Nature vs. Nature / Jacqueline Waeber
28. Inequality / Robin Douglass
29. Cosmopolitanism versus Patriotism / Matthew D. Mendham
V. Squaring the Circle: Rousseau's Political Science
30. Rousseau's Political Science / Joseph Reisert
31. Rousseau's Political Economy / Geneviève Rousselière
32. Rousseau's Legislative Reveries / Pamela K. Jensen
33. Rousseau's Place in the Civil Religion Tradition / Ronald Beiner
34. The Political Possibilities of the Faith of the Savoyard Vicar / Kimberley J. Burns
35. Who Needs Civil Religion? / Mira Morgenstern
VI. In conversation with successors
36. Rousseau and Kant: Imitation, Genius, and Scandal / Jeremiah Alberg
37. Self-Unity, Culture and Aesthetic Education: Prolegomena to Schiller's Rousseauian Mind / Richard Velkley
38. The Economics of Philosophical Anthropology: Hegel versus Rousseau / Paul A. Cantor
39. Rousseau and Tocqueville / Matthew W. Maguire
40. Rousseau, Derrida and Imitative Novelty / Wang Wei
VII. Rousseau applied today
41. Rousseau and Feminism / Eileen Hunt Botting
42. Rousseau and Public Intellectuals / Jonathan Marks
43. Rousseau and Environmentalism / Zev Trachtenberg
44. External Relations, International relations: Rousseau on War and the Law of War / Blaise Bachofen
Conclusion
Index.