2. Rousseau’s Unrepresentable Sovereign

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Representation and Democracy 17
6. 2. Rousseau’s Unrepresentable Sovereign 60
7. 3. Will and Judgment: The Kantian Revision 101
8. 4. A Nation of Electors: Sieye’s Model of Representative Government 138
9. 5. Thomas Paine and the Perfecting of Simple Democracy 162
10. 6. A Republic of Citizens: Condorcet’s Indirect Democracy 176
11. Conclusion: A Surplus of Politics 223
12. Notes 229
13. Bibliography 293
14. Index 317