Preface
Introduction
1. Contemporary Modernity and Its Discontents
2. Rousseau's Critique of Modernity
a. Man in the State of Nature
b. Rousseau's Argument against Hobbes
c. The State of Nature and Society
d. The Transition to Society
e. From the Patriarchal to the Agricultural Society
f. Society and the Self: Rousseau's Critique of Modernity
3. The Legitimate Political Order
a. Competition and the Emancipated Society
b. Neither Totalitarian nor Liberal
c. On Rousseau's Concept of Freedom
d. Civic Virtue and Private Virtue
4. Rousseau's Psychology of the Self
a. Education versus Socialization
b. Rousseau's Psychology of the Self
c. Excursus on Authenticity
5. Beyond the Limits of Autonomy: Rousseau's Ethic of Autheniticy
a. The New Heloise
b. The Limits of Autonomy
6. Ethics and the Tensions of Modernity: A Neo-Weberian Interpretation
a. Rousseau and the Postmodern Syndrome
b. Weber's Conception of Ethical Evolution as Rationalization
c. The Tensions of Modern Morality
7. Authenticity and the Evolution of Ethics
Notes
Bibliography
Index