Abandoned to ourselves
Meyers, Peter Alexander.
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, & 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 ... / [electronic resource] : 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 ... Peter Alexander Meyers. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012. - xxiv, 524 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 --Political and social views.
Political sociology.
Electronic books.
JC179.R9 / M49 2012eb
306.2
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, & 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 ... / [electronic resource] : 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 ... Peter Alexander Meyers. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012. - xxiv, 524 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 --Political and social views.
Political sociology.
Electronic books.
JC179.R9 / M49 2012eb
306.2