The catechism of the citizen: politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau

As a way of thinking through the bleakness of the political present through which we are all too precipitously moving, this essay attempts to demonstrate the interconnections between three concepts: politics, law and religion. By way of a detailed reading of Rousseau, I try to show how any conceptio...

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Published in:Continental philosophy review 2009-02, Vol.42 (1), p.5-34
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