Preface
Acknowledgments
Critical Introduction
1. Alienation, Individuation, and Enlightenment in Rousseau's Social Theory
2. Rousseau and the Problem of Community: Nationalism, Civic Virtue, Totalitarianism
3. The Public Sphere, Alienation, and Commodification:Rousseau's Autobiographical Writings
Transitional Interlude
4. Materialist Hermeneutics: Diderot's Rêve de d'Alembert
5. Diderot and Hegel: Alienation and the Problem of Ethical Life in Le Neveu de Rameau
6. The Public/Private Dialectic Revisited: Diderot's Art Criticism
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index