Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions
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Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's engagement with Thomas Hobbes. Douglass reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau's critique of Hobbes and to show how Rousseau sought to expose that much modern natural law and doux commerce theory was, despite its protestations to the contrary, indebted to a Hobbesian account of human nature and the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198724969
ISBN13:9780198724964
Release Date:April 2015
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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