Research Catalog

Title

The general will : the evolution of a concept / edited by James Farr, David Lay Williams.

Publication

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Details

Additional Authors

• Farr, James, 1950-
• Williams, David Lay, 1969-

Description

xl, 495 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• General will
• Legitimacy of governments
• Political science > Philosophy > History
• Political science > Philosophy
• Volonté générale
• Staat
• Legitimität

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-476) and index.

Contents

The general will before Rousseau : the contributions of Arnauld, Pascal, Malebranche, Bayle and Bossuet / Patrick Riley -- Malebranche's shadow : divine providence and general will in the Leibniz-Arnauld correspondence / Steven Nadler -- Locke's ideas, Rousseau's principles, and the general will / James Farr -- Spinoza and the general will / David Lay Williams -- Freedom, sovereignty, and the general will in Montesquieu / Sharon R. Krause -- Rethinking Rousseau's tyranny of orators : Cicero's on duties and the beauty of true glory / Daniel J. Kapust -- An American general will? : 'the bonds of brotherly affection' in New England / Andrew R. Murphy -- The substantive elements of Rousseau's general will / David Lay Williams -- Justice, beneficence, and boundaries : Rousseau and the paradox of generality / Richard Boyd -- On the general will of humanity : global connections in Rousseau's political thought / Sankar Muthu -- General will in Rousseau and after Rousseau / Tracy B. Strong -- Kant on the general will / Patrick Riley -- The general will after Rousseau : Smith and Rousseau on sociability and inequality / Shannon C. Stimson -- Benjamin Constant's liberalism and the political theology of the general will / Bryan Garsten -- The general will after Rousseau : the case of Tocqueville / Michael Locke McLendon -- Rawls on Rousseau and the general will / Christopher Brooke.

Call Number

JFE 15-5096

ISBN

• 9781107057012
• 1107057019
• 9781107639959 (paperback)
• 1107639956 (paperback)

LCCN

• 2014034127
• 40024769127

OCLC

890624231

Title

The general will : the evolution of a concept / edited by James Farr, David Lay Williams.

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-476) and index.

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Publisher description

Contributor biographical information

Table of contents only

Added Author

Farr, James, 1950- editor.

Williams, David Lay, 1969- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40024769127

Research Call Number

JFE 15-5096