TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corbin,Stéphane
TI  - Gift and Social Contract in the Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (I)
PY  - 2015///.
							
N1  - 83
N2  - According to a common reading of Rousseau, the fact that he estimated society to be necessarily corrupt lead him to promote the return to a state of nature through an exile that opened onto the possibilities of a coincidence with oneself. Against this vulgate, an analysis of the gift, a theme which crosses the whole of Rousseau's works, shows that it is the requirement of separation from oneself that constitutes the fundamental condition for a legitimate social pact. If one follows Rousseau through the developments of this ontological requirement of separation, one remarks how much the question of the gift provides a key to interpreting the complexity of his theory of legitimation
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-du-mauss-2015-1-page-297?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -