Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau: Bienfaisance and Pudeur Book

	Acknowledgements
	A preliminary note on vocabulary and conventions
	Introduction	1
1	The problem: the intersection of beneficence and pudicity	5
	Beneficence	8
	Theoretical contradictions	9
	Textual disruptions	12
	Writer-reader relations	15
2	The code of beneficence	16
	Social bond	18
	Rational calculation and emotional intuition	24
	Magnanimity and slavery	28
3	The practice of beneficence and model benefactors in the major works	37
	The Confessions: the identification of the self with the weaker party	41
	The Confessions: Rousseau as benefactor	57
	The Dialogues: false beneficence	63
	Model beneficence: Julie	68
	Model beneficence: Wolmar, Emile's tutor and the legislator	72
4	The passion of pity in Rousseau's theory of man	82
	The relation of passions to reasoned behaviour	82
	Self-love: amour de soi and amour-propre	83
	The three stages of pity	86
	The relation between pity and amorous passion	92
	Pudicity	97
	Spectacle	101
5	Gyges' ring: a reading of Rousseau's 6[superscript e] Promenade	108
	Failed beneficence	109
	The Gyges' ring daydream and the origin in Plato's Republic	113
	Invisible omnipotence	119
	The transgression of pudicity	123
	Hierarchy	125
6	Pudicity in some of Rousseau's minor writings: its relationship to beneficence	131
	The portrayal of women in La Mort de Lucrece, Les Amours d'Edouard, Le Levite d'Ephraim and Les Solitaires	133
	The breakdown of pudicity	146
	The relationship between pudicity and beneficence	160
	The function of the marginal works as tests of those hierarchies which Rousseau acknowledges	173
	The lessons of the marginal works	185
	Conclusion	188
	Towards a new interpretation of the major works	188
	Towards a reconstructive reading	194
	Appendix: Generosity and pudicity in Gyges und sein Ring and Le Roi Candaule	197
	Notes	206
	Bibliography	242
	Index	00