Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Rousseau, Desire, and Modernity 1
5. PART ONE. From the Standard of Natural Independence to the Challenges of Bourgeois Capitalism
6. 1. Perfectibility, Chance, and the Mechanism of Desire Multiplication in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality 17
7. 2. An Alternative to Economic Man: The Limitation of Desire in Rousseau’s Emile 46
8. 3. Rousseau’s Mandevillean Conception of Desire and Modern Society 62
9. PART TWO. Desire and the Problem of Others in Modernity
10. 4. Desire and Will: The Sentient and Conscious Self in Locke and Rousseau 85
11. 5. Openings that Close: The Paradox of Desire in Rousseau 104
12. 6. Rousseau, Constant, and the Political Institutionalization of Ambivalence 117
13. PART THREE. Sex, Kids, Love, and the City
14. 7. ‘The Pleasures Associated with the Reproduction of Men’: Rousseau on Desire and the Child 141
15. 8. Politics in/of the City: Love, Modernity, and Strangeness in the City of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 165
16. Bibliography 187
17. Contributors 195
18. Index 199