I : The interpretation of Rousseau -- The study of the political theory of Rousseau -- Rousseau and the French Revolution -- The critics of Rousseau -- II : The political world of Rousseau -- Philosophers and despots -- Parliamentary government -- Associations in the state -- The civil religion -- The abstract nature of the contract social -- III : Liberty and the general will -- Natural rights and the social order -- The sovereignty of the general will -- Separation of powers -- Rousseau and the democratic state -- IV : Rousseau and the nation state -- Revolt against the cosmopolitan ideal -- The definition of a nation -- Nationalism, the new tyranny -- V : The social ideal -- Luxe: Rousseau against Voltaire -- The ideal of equality -- The middle classes -- VI : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the modern political mind -- Back to nature -- The political theory of romanticism: Rousseau and Burke -- The individual and the community -- Appendices 1 : political ideas of the Comte d' Antraighes -- 2 : D'Antraigues MS

1. Political science
2. Social contract
3. Rousseau
4. Jean-Jacques
5. 1712-1778