Abandoned to ourselves being an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, & aimed to uncover tensions between those two perspectives : creationism and social evolution, that remain embedded in our common sense & which still impede the human science of politics... /

Meyers, Peter Alexander

Abandoned to ourselves being an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, & aimed to uncover tensions between those two perspectives : creationism and social evolution, that remain embedded in our common sense & which still impede the human science of politics... / [Texte imprimé] : Peter Alexander Meyers - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, cop. 2013 - 1 vol. (524 p.) : graph. ; 24 cm

Bibliogr. p. 471-495

Society as the ethical starting point for political inquiry -- The moral relevance of dependence -- Nature and the moral frame of society -- Morality in the order of the will

978-0-300-17205-8

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques--1712-1778--Political and social views Political sociology

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