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Author Meyers, Peter Alexander.

Title Abandoned to ourselves [electronic resource] : 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 tension between those two perspectives-- creationism & social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense & which still impedes the human science of politics ... / Peter Alexander Meyers.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxiv, 524 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Political and social views.
Political sociology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title 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, and aimed to uncover tensions between those two perspectives-- creationism and social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense and which still impede the human science of politics ...
ISBN 9780300172058 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300178050 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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