Misreading One's Sources: Charles Taylor's Rousseau

Jonathan Marks

American Journal of Political Science, 2005, vol. 49, issue 1, 119-134

Abstract: This article challenges Taylor's defense of community by criticizing his reading of Jean‐Jacques Rousseau. Taylor, who adheres to the old charge that Rousseau is at bottom a totalitarian, neglects several points of resistance to the claims of the community that are present in Rousseau's political thought. Such points of resistance prove, on close examination, to be unavailable to Taylor. Taylor inadvertently offers a theoretical attack on individualism and a foundation for social tyranny more powerful than any to be found in Rousseau's thought.

Date: 2005
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