商品簡介
Brooks (U. of Newcastle, England) has selected 16 essays on French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) that explore his contributions to contemporary work in legal and political theory. They cover the general will, social contract theories, democratic rights, fundamental law, natural and natural rights, affinities between Rousseau's and Dworkin's legal theories, the use of narrative, bioethics, and promise enforcement. Among specific topics are his ideas on proportional majority rule, theory of natural law as conditional, narratives of hierarchy, and the re-emergence of enlightenment ideas in the 1994 French bioethics debate. They are reproduced from journals and anthologies published from 1972 and 2003; the original page numbers are preserved. Only names are indexed. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Thom Brooks is a Lecturer in Political Thought at the University of Newcastle, and Founding Editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy. He is the author of more than two dozen articles in legal theory and political philosophy, such as Utilitas, Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Rutgers Law Record, Res Publica, Archiv fA?r Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, History of Political Thought, and many others.
