Commentary

• ‘To Persuade without Convincing’: The Language of Rousseau’s Legislator

  - Christopher Kelly, “‘To Persuade without Convincing’: The Language of Rousseau's Legislator,” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 31, No. 2, 1987.
  Excerpt: Critics have long noted the paradoxical nature of Rousseau’s appeal to a solitary lawgiver within a social contract theory based on equality and consent. However, far from representing a compromise of the principles of equality and consent, the… More