Includes essays by prominent political theorists and philosophers that trace the evolution of the general will from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theori
In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives
Joshua Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in Rousseau's conception o
This book deals with the role and place of the general will in modern and contemporary political thought. This project is carried out at the crossroads of the h