Contents:
Acknowledgements ix;
Series Preface xi;
Introduction xiii;
Part I: The General Will and Social Contract Theory:
1. What is the general will?, Gopal Sreenivasan (2000);
2. Universal and general wills: Hegel and Rousseau, Arthur Ripstein;
3. Forced to be free, John Hope Mason;
Part II: Democratic Rights:
4. Reflections on Rousseau: autonomy and democracy, Joshua Cohen;
5. Rousseau on proportional majority rule, Paul Weirach;
6. Rousseau on agenda-setting and majority rule, Ethan Putterman;
7. 'To persuade without convincing': the language of Rousseau's legislator, Christopher Kelly;
8. Rousseau for (and against) censorship, Christopher Kelly;
Part III: Fundamental Law:
9. Rousseau on fundamental law, Melissa Schwartzberg;
Part IV: Natural Law and Natural Rights:
10. Rousseau's theory of natural law as conditional, John B. Noone Jr;
11. Rousseau's moral realism: replacing natural law with the general will, Arthur M. Melzer;
12. Rousseau's Pufendorf: natural law and the foundations of commercial society, Robert Wokler;
Part V: Rousseau and Dworkin:
13. Rousseau in Dworkin: judicial rulings as expressions of the general will, Richard Nordahl; Part VI: Narratives and the Law:
14. Narratives of hierarchy: Loving v. Virginia and the literary imagination, Martha Nussbaum; Part VII: Bioethics:
15. The reemergence of enlightenment ideas in the 1994 French bioethics debates, Nan T. Ball; Part VIII: Promise Enforcement:
16. Promise enforcement in public housing: lessons from Rousseau and Hundertwasser, Kirsten D.A. Carpenter;
Name index.