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Montesquieu and the Discovery of the Social

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  • © 2013

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  1. Brian C. J. Singer

    1. York University, Canada

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. The Question Concerning Laws

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    Pages 1-40

  3. Power, Law and the Three Regimes: Political Bonds

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    Pages 41-97

  4. The Spirit of the Three Regimes: Social Bonds

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    Pages 98-155

  5. The General Spirit, Moeurs, Manners and the English Regime

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    Pages 156-210

  6. Conclusion: Speaking of the Social

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    Pages 211-282

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 283-296
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Montesquieu is often considered the first social thinker. Today, when 'the end of the social' has been proclaimed, it is time to reconsider its beginnings. In a wide-ranging, original interpretation of The Spirit of the Laws, this book explores what did it mean to 'discover the social', and what can it mean to recover the social today?

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  • York University, Canada

    Brian C. J. Singer

About the author

BRIAN SINGER is a Professor at Glendon College York University, Canada. He has previously published Society, Theory and the French Revolution, has translated works by Claude-Levi Strauss and Jean Baudrillard, amongst others.

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