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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 |
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