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The general will :

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0521443229

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9780521443227

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The general will :

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Rousseau, Marx, communism /

First Statement of Responsibility

Andrew Levine.

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New York :

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Cambridge University Press,

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1993.

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xiii, 222 pages ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. The general will in theory : Are all wills private? ; Nonwelfarist interests ; Individuals ; A free-rider problem? ; Internal relations ; The reality of the general will -- 2. The "origin" of the private will : The original state of nature ; Before the private will ; From self-love to amour propre ; De facto states ; Freedom ; Ephemeral Hobbesianism -- 3. Solidarity : A point of departure ; What is solidarity? ; The practice of solidarity ; Beyond solidarity ; Solidarity forever? -- 4. Democracy in the age of states : Democracy ; Modeling democracy ; Democracy in a world of states ; Limits to decentralization ; Representation ; Representation versus delegation ; Elections ; Democratization -- 5. The last state : Democracy and dictatorship ; Relative autonomy ; Beyond liberal democracy? ; The ideological state apparatus ; Cultural revolution -- 6. The liberal state and/versus the last state : Romanticism/careerism ; Enhancing autonomy ; Self-realization and the good ; Higher and lower pleasures ; Experimentalism ; The liberal state and the last state -- 7. Rousseauean Marxism and/versus liberalism : What do liberals want? ; Autonomy ; Harmony ; Community -- 8. Communism : Beyond scarcity? ; Beyond self-interest? ; Liberalism and the general will ; Virtue ; From virtue to justice ; Equality and "bourgeois right" ; Basic liberties ; Justice internalized ; Responsibility ; Justice and the general will ; The exercise of the general will ; Aggregating autonomy -- 9. After Communism, communism? : Small-c communism ; Socialism ; Marxism today ; Historical materialism ; Must we bring social democracy back in?

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This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx's notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area Levine applies the tools and techniques of analytic philosophy to formulate and defend his radical political program. The argument proceeds by filtering the ideals and institutions of Marxism through Rousseau's notion of the "general will." Once Rousseau's ideas are properly understood it is possible to construct a community of equals who share some vision of a common good that can be achieved and maintained through cooperation or coordination that is at once both voluntary and authoritative. The book engages with liberal theory in order to establish its differences from Rousseauean-Marxian political theory. This provocative book will be of particular interest to political philosophers and political scientists concerned with Marxism, socialist theory, and democratic theory.

Marx, Karl,1818-1883.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,1712-1778.

Marx, Karl,1818-1883-- Contributions in political science.

Marx, Karl,1818-1883.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,1712-1778.

Marx, Karl,1818-1883.

Marx, Karl,1818-1883.

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

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,1712-1778.

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Democracy.

General will.

State, The.

Algemene wil.

Communism.

Communist state.

Democracy.

Democratie.

General will.

General will.

State, The.

State, The.

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335.5

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Levine, Andrew,1944-

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20201204162502.0

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