Commentary
Reflections on Rousseau: Autonomy and Democracy
- Joshua Cohen, “Reflections on Rousseau: autonomy and democracy,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 3, (1986), pp. 275-97.Excerpt: In this essay I discuss several recent studies of Rousseau’s political philosophy. These studies cover a broad array of issues, ranging from Rousseau on the nature of the will to Rousseau on direct democracy, and from the intellectual… More