Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations
Warner, John M. (Assistant Professor, Kansas State University) In this volume, John Warner grapples with one of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's chief preoccupations: the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. Not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, Warner argues, but he also believed it was fundamentally unsolvable-that social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being.This engaging study is founded on two basic but important questions: what do we ...