Rousseau: An Introduction to His Psychological, Social and Political Theory

Dent argues that Rousseau's political ideas are the natural outgrowth of other interests and not simply the point to which all his other work tended. He shows how Rousseau's ideas concerning the sense of a common life and the importance of mutual respect to the flourishing of healthy political and social organizations may be linked to the psychological preoccupations of the man and his attitude towards the corruption of his times.