Rousseau Today

Denis C. Bosseau is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Owen Brown is an independent scholar, based in Oxford, UK. Neal Harris is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Ployjai Pintobtang is a Lecturer in the department of Government, University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Rereading Rousseau, Reclaiming History.- Chapter 2: From fashioned to Fashioner: Rousseau and the Reclaiming of History.- Part II: 'Marxism and Critical Theory'.- Chapter 3: The Most Absolute Authority': Rousseau and the Tensions of Mass Sovereignty.- Chapter 4: Althusser, Rousseau and the Politics of the Encounter.- Chapter 5: The ambivalence of human sociality: Rousseau and recognition.- Part III: 'Transgression and Resistance'.- Chapter 6: Olympe de Gouges: Gendering Rousseau.- Chapter 7: Toward a Queer and Feminist Ecology in The Reveries of the Solitary Walker.- Part IV: Sovereignty and Economic Democracy.- Chapter 8: Sovereignty as Responsibility: Rousseau and the Dialectic of Practical Reason.- Chapter 9: Economic Democracy and Rousseau's Political Thought.- Part V: 'Rousseau and Intellectual History'.- Chapter 10: Rousseau in Thai Constitutionalism.- Chapter 11: Rousseau in Meiji Japan: the impact of French Republicanism and Nakae Chômin.- Conclusion co-authored by Denis C. Bosseau, Neal Harris, and Ployjai Pintobtang (NB Owen Brown is no longer co-authoring this chapter).