Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals

by Joshua Cohen and Joshua Cohen

Book Overview

In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals 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 of the "society of the general will"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199581509
• ISBN13: 9780199581504
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"