Absolute power over all its members
Further evidence, in the case of Rousseau, to confirm Nancy’s thesis that forms of community premised on a single, collective subject can’t help but tend toward totalitarianism:
bq. As nature gives to each person an absolute power over all its members, the social pact gives to the body politic an absolute power over all of its members, and it is this very power which, directed by the general will, bears the name of sovereignty. (Du contrat social II.iv)
10 June 2009 |
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Tags: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Luc Nancy
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