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SUMMARY:The Most Absolute Authority: Rousseau’s Divided Legacy
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DESCRIPTION:<strong>This online Zoom event will take place on Tuesday 1 June 2021\, 6pm Melbourne time (time conversion below).</strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Melbourne\, Australia&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Tue\, 1 Jun 2021 at 6:00 pm AEST</li>\n<li>New York\, USA&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Tue\, 1 Jun 2021 at 4:00 am EDT</li>\n<li>Los Angeles\, USA&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Tue\, 1 Jun 2021 at 1:00 am PDT</li>\n<li>London\, United Kingdom&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Tue\, 1 Jun 2021 at 9:00 am BST</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Open to the public. To receive the Zoom link for this event\, please email&nbsp\;socialcontractresearchnetwork@gmail.com</a>.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p></a><strong>Peter Hallward (Kingston University)</strong></a><strong>\, &lsquo\;The Most Absolute Authority: Rousseau&rsquo\;s Divided Legacy&rsquo\;.</strong></p>\n<p>&lsquo\;The most absolute authority&rsquo\;\, Rousseau writes\, &lsquo\;is that which penetrates to man's inmost being\, and affects his will no less than it does his actions.&rsquo\; The famous account of a &lsquo\;general will&rsquo\; that Rousseau then develops as a way of understanding the depth and breadth of such penetration can be understood in two ways. On the hand\, Rousseau&rsquo\;s emphasis on political psychology seems to cross a threshold in the long history of modern power\, from a Hobbesian emphasis on forceful compulsion and outward obedience through Marx&rsquo\;s analysis of the &lsquo\;golden threads&rsquo\; of capitalist coercion to Foucault&rsquo\;s analysis of the mechanisms whereby power comes to work directly on the inward dynamics of the psyche. On the other hand\, Rousseau&rsquo\;s account of a general will also helps to clarify what needs to be done\, in situations structured in dominance and hierarchy\, to acquire and sustain a capacity for collective\, egalitarian and autonomous self-determination. Rousseau can either be denounced as the architect of a newly sinister &lsquo\;soulcraft&rsquo\;\, or embraced as the revolutionary prophet of mass emancipation. Which path should we choose? And how far do they diverge?</p>
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