TY - BOOK AU - Blackell,Mark AU - Kow,Simon AU - Duncan,John TI - Rousseau and desireedited by Mark Blackell, John Duncan, and Simon Kow SN - 9781442685376 AV - B2137 .R687 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Toronto [Ont. PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Philosophy-Ancient KW - Desire (Philosophy) KW - Self (Philosophy) KW - Civilization, Modern KW - Philosophy KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction : Rousseau, desire, and modernity; Mark Blackell, John Duncan, and Simon Kow --; part 1, From the standard of natural independence to the challenges of bourgeois capitalism. Perfectibility, chance, and the mechanism of desire multiplication in Rousseau's Discourse on inequality; John Duncan ; An alternative to economic man : the limitation of desire in Rousseau's Emile; Grace Roosevelt ; Rousseau's Mandevillean conception of desire and modern society; Simon Kow --; part 2, Desire and the problem of others in modernity. Desire and will : the sentient and conscious self in Lock and Rousseau; Vasiliki Grigoropoulou ; Opening that close : the paradox of desire in Rousseau; Katrin Froese ; Rousseau, constant, and the political institutionalization of ambivalence; Mark Blackell --; part 3, Sex, kids, love, and the city. 'The pleasures associated with the reproduction of men' : Rousseau on desire and the child; Brian Duff ; Politics in/of the city : love, modernity, and strangeness in the city of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Mira Morgenstern; 2; b N2 - Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=682651&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -