Dependence on Persons and Dependence on Goods

By Byron Matthew Davies

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often associated with a certain political form of relating to another as a person, where a person is seen as a locus of enforceable demands. Nevertheless, as I argue in this dissertation, Rousseau also articulated an affective form of relating to another, where relating to another as a person in this sense involves seeing them as a locus of a kind of value that cannot be demanded. I consider the significance of this affective form for Rousseau's understanding of the passion he calls amour-propre, as well for his understanding of domination and of the connection between the political and affective realms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835206905
• ISBN13: 9781835206904
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Areeb Irshad
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"