Rousseau and Hobbes

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Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He 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...
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Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He 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...
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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9780191038037
  • Publication Date: 12 Feb 2015
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM