Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Division of Labour, The Politics of the Imagination and The Concept of Federal Government

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and a Note on Citations
Chapter 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Marvellous in Life
	1 The Power of Prose
	2 Rousseau and Burke
	3 An Elusive System
	4 The Problem of Unity
	5 A Cumulative Process
	6 The Mystery of Federalism
Chapter 2 The Fénelon Problem
	1 The Many Dimensions of Reform
	2 Rousseau and Montesquieu
	3 Markets, Politics and Reform
	4 Rousseau and the Fénelon Problem
Chapter 3 The Division of Labour and the Political Economy of the General Will
	1 Population and Subsistence Goods
	2 Perfectibility, Autonomy and the Idea of a Federal Government
	3 The Social Contract
	4 Gradated Promotion and the General Will
	5 Taxation and Representation
	6 The Federal Dimension of Rousseau’s Thought
Chapter 4 The Politics of the Imagination
	1 The Language of Signs
	2 The Origins of the Imagination
	3 The Genealogy of Love
	4 The Imagination and the Social Contract
Chapter 5 Conscience and the Structure of Federal Government
	1 A Simulacrum of Virtue
	2 The Origins of Conscience
	3 The Power of Enchantment
Chapter 6 Rousseau’s Legacy
	1 Theodicies and Their Properties
	2 From Metapolitics to Civil Society
	3 Theories of the Political State
	4 Lorenz von Stein
	5 Rudolf von Jhering
	6 The Concept of Sovereignty
	7 Otto von Gierke
	8 Epilogue: the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem in Historical Context
Bibliography
Index