Rousseau's Rome: Book IV of The Social Contract and the Specter of Montesquieu

IF 0.4 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.a909454

Sara Furnal

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Abstract: Scholars of Rousseau's Social Contract have focused primarily on the text's abstract principles of political right. This theoretical focus has come at the cost of serious consideration of practical aspects of Rousseau's thought, such as his views on bringing the political association into being and what Rousseau calls maxims of politics . One of his extended discussions about political practice occurs in Book IV of The Social Contract , yet this portion of the text largely has been ignored. My central claim is that Book IV merits serious attention since it changes Rousseau's project from one that uses political right merely to condemn institutions to a theory that uses right to identify latent possibilities for changing institutions. Further, this practical theory comes to light most clearly when one understands that he is in conversation with Montesquieu in Book IV on the topic of the Roman Republic.

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卢梭的罗马:《社会契约论》第四卷与孟德斯鸠的幽灵

摘要:研究卢梭《社会契约论》的学者主要关注文本中抽象的政治权利原则。这种理论的关注是以对卢梭思想的实践方面的认真考虑为代价的，比如他关于政治联合形成的观点，以及卢梭所谓的政治格言。他在《社会契约论》第四卷中有一篇关于政治实践的延伸讨论，但这部分内容在很大程度上被忽略了。我的中心观点是，第四卷值得认真关注，因为它将卢梭的计划从仅仅利用政治权利来谴责制度转变为利用权利来识别改变制度的潜在可能性的理论。此外，当人们理解他在第四卷中与孟德斯鸠就罗马共和国的话题进行对话时，这个实践理论就会变得最清晰。

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期刊介绍： As the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal selects essays that employ different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses to explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars concerned with the eighteenth century.