General Will
The Evolution of a Concept
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Word Count
133,750 words, Guess
Page Count
535 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28548622M
- ISBN-139781107057012
- OCLC Control Number890624231
- Library of Congress Control Number2014034127
Classifications
- LCCJC328.2 .G46 2015
Description
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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