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- W4381302783 abstract "By comparison with early modern theorists of sovereignty like Bodin and Hobbes, Rousseau understood that ‘the most absolute authority is that which penetrates to man's innermost being, and affects his will no less than it does his actions’ (DPE, 251). If a genuinely popular sovereign authority is to prevail over its rivals and control its government, Rousseau argues that it must succeed in doing two things simultaneously: it must both generalise the will that directs it and concentrate the powers that enforce it. On the one hand, the more general a will, the more equitable are its concerns and the more imposing its commands: ‘the most general will is also the most just’ (DPE, 246), and by definition ‘the more the State expands, the more its real force increases’ (SC 3:2). On the other hand, Rousseau accepts that ‘interest and commiseration must in some way be constricted and compressed in order to be activated’ (DPE, 254), and he recognises in any struggle for sovereignty ‘the people's force acts only when concentrated, it evaporates and is lost as it spreads, like the effect of gunpowder scattered on the ground and which ignites only grain by grain’ (SC 3:8). Appreciation of the tension between these two requirements helps to shed light on the way some of Rousseau’s Jacobin followers conceived of the relation between popular sovereignty and executive authority, and it remains a helpful way of clarifying some of the recurring challenges confronted by emancipatory political organisations all through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the final part of this article, I will try to illustrate what’s at stake in these tensions through brief discussions of two very different French figures who might be said to dramatise the opposing poles of Rousseau’s legacy: Jean Jaurès’ defence of a revolutionary reformism mediated by maximally ‘generalised’ state institutions, and Pierre Clastres’ fascination with maximally ‘concentrated’ societies organised in wholesale opposition to the emergence of state power." @default.
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- W4381302783 title "‘The Most Absolute Authority’: Rousseau and the Tensions of Popular Sovereignty" @default.
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