Modernity and Authenticity: A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques RousseauThis study on the contemporary relevance of Rousseau's ethical and social thought, the "ethic of authenticity," responds to the tensions of modern morality and rivals the answers generated by the more mainstream tradition of the "ethic of autonomy." |
Contents
CONTEMPORARY MODERNITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS | 7 |
ROUSSEAUS CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY | 29 |
a Man in the State of Nature | 30 |
b Rousseaus Argument against Hobbes | 33 |
c The State of Nature and Society | 37 |
d The Transition to Society | 39 |
e From the Patriarchal to the Agricultural Society | 43 |
Rousseaus Critique of Modernity | 47 |
b Rousseaus Psychology of the Self | 79 |
c Excursus on Authenticity | 86 |
BEYOND THE LIMITS OF AUTONOMY ROUSSEAUS ETHIC OF AUTHENTICITY | 93 |
a The New Heloise | 94 |
b The Limits of Autonomy | 102 |
ETHICS AND THE TENSIONS OF MODERNITY A NEOWEBERIAN INTERPRETATION | 111 |
a Rousseau and the Postmodern Syndrome | 112 |
b Webers Conception of Ethical Evolution as Rationalization | 117 |
THE LEGITIMATE POLITICAL ORDER | 51 |
a Competition and the Emancipated Society | 52 |
b Neither Totalitarian nor Liberal | 55 |
c On Rousseaus Concept of Freedom | 60 |
d Civic Virtue and Private Virtue | 65 |
ROUSSEAUS PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SELF | 69 |
a Education versus Socialization | 70 |
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