Mikkel Thorup is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His previous publications include An Intellectual History of Terror: War, Violence and the State (Routledge, 2010). Holger Ross Lauritsen is a PhD Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

• Introduction; Part I: Democracy and Violence; 1. Why Rousseau Mistrusts Revolutions Blaise Bachofen; 2. The General Will and National Conscioussness: Radical Requirements of Democratic Legitimacy in the Writing of Rousseau and Fanon Jane Anna Gordon; 3. Rousseau and the Terror: A Reassessment Julian Bourg; 4. Arbitrariness and Freedom: Hegel on Rousseau and Revolution Angelica Nuzzo; Part II: Philosophy and Political Change; 5. Reverse Revolution: The Paradox of Rousseau's Authorship Faycal Falaky; 6. The General Will Between Conservation and Revolution Holger Ross Lauritsen; 7. Rousseau and Revolution in the Making of a Modern Political Culture: Denmark 1750-1850 Holger Ross Lauritsen; Part III: Revolution and History; 8. Creation, Destruction and Continuity of Order Christiane Mossin; 9. Rousseau and the Revolutions of the Earth: Remarks on a Natural Metaphor Antoine Hatzenberger; 10. The Revolutionary Return of the Orator: Public Space and the Spoken Word in the Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Masano Yamashita; 11. Rousseau, the Revolution and the Republic Masano Yamashita; Index.

Mikkel Thorup is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His previous publications include An Intellectual History of Terror: War, Violence and the State (Routledge, 2010). Holger Ross Lauritsen is a PhD Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

• Introduction; Part I: Democracy and Violence; 1. Why Rousseau Mistrusts Revolutions Blaise Bachofen; 2. The General Will and National Conscioussness: Radical Requirements of Democratic Legitimacy in the Writing of Rousseau and Fanon Jane Anna Gordon; 3. Rousseau and the Terror: A Reassessment Julian Bourg; 4. Arbitrariness and Freedom: Hegel on Rousseau and Revolution Angelica Nuzzo; Part II: Philosophy and Political Change; 5. Reverse Revolution: The Paradox of Rousseau's Authorship Faycal Falaky; 6. The General Will Between Conservation and Revolution Holger Ross Lauritsen; 7. Rousseau and Revolution in the Making of a Modern Political Culture: Denmark 1750-1850 Holger Ross Lauritsen; Part III: Revolution and History; 8. Creation, Destruction and Continuity of Order Christiane Mossin; 9. Rousseau and the Revolutions of the Earth: Remarks on a Natural Metaphor Antoine Hatzenberger; 10. The Revolutionary Return of the Orator: Public Space and the Spoken Word in the Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Masano Yamashita; 11. Rousseau, the Revolution and the Republic Masano Yamashita; Index.

Mikkel Thorup is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His previous publications include An Intellectual History of Terror: War, Violence and the State (Routledge, 2010). Holger Ross Lauritsen is a PhD Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

• Introduction; Part I: Democracy and Violence; 1. Why Rousseau Mistrusts Revolutions Blaise Bachofen; 2. The General Will and National Conscioussness: Radical Requirements of Democratic Legitimacy in the Writing of Rousseau and Fanon Jane Anna Gordon; 3. Rousseau and the Terror: A Reassessment Julian Bourg; 4. Arbitrariness and Freedom: Hegel on Rousseau and Revolution Angelica Nuzzo; Part II: Philosophy and Political Change; 5. Reverse Revolution: The Paradox of Rousseau's Authorship Faycal Falaky; 6. The General Will Between Conservation and Revolution Holger Ross Lauritsen; 7. Rousseau and Revolution in the Making of a Modern Political Culture: Denmark 1750-1850 Holger Ross Lauritsen; Part III: Revolution and History; 8. Creation, Destruction and Continuity of Order Christiane Mossin; 9. Rousseau and the Revolutions of the Earth: Remarks on a Natural Metaphor Antoine Hatzenberger; 10. The Revolutionary Return of the Orator: Public Space and the Spoken Word in the Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Masano Yamashita; 11. Rousseau, the Revolution and the Republic Masano Yamashita; Index.