TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farr,James
AU  - Williams,David Lay
TI  - The general will: the evolution of a concept 
SN  - 9781316247891
AV  - JC328.2 .G46 2014eb
U1  - 320.01/1 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - General will
KW  - Legitimacy of governments
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Volonté générale
KW  - Légitimité des gouvernements
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Government
KW  - General
KW  - National
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - gnd
KW  - Staat
KW  - Legitimität
KW  - Politisk legitimitet
KW  - sao
KW  - Politisk filosofi
KW  - historia
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-476) and index; 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
N2  - Although it originated in theological debates, the general will ultimately became one of the most celebrated and denigrated concepts emerging from early modern political thought. Jean-Jacques Rousseau made it the central element of his political theory, and it took on a life of its own during the French Revolution, before being subjected to generations of embrace or opprobrium. James Farr and David Lay Williams have collected for the first time a set of essays that track the evolving history of the general will from its origins to recent times. The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept discusses the general will's theological, political, formal, and substantive dimensions with a careful eye toward the concept's virtues and limitations as understood by its expositors and critics, among them Arnauld, Pascal, Malebranche, Leibniz, Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Kant, Constant, Tocqueville, Adam Smith and John Rawls.--
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