Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions

by Robin Douglass

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"