Part 1 Reading Rousseau contextually: Rousseau's general will - freedom of a particular kind, Patrick Riley; Hume, Smith and Rousseau on freedom, Norman Barry; human nature, liberty and progress - Rousseau's dialogue with the critics of the discours sur l'inegalite, Christopher Kelly and Roger Masters; Rousseau and Tocqueville on democratic legitimacy and illegitimacy, Melvin Richter. Part 2 Interpreting the social contract: thinking one's own thoughts - autonomy and the citizen, Geraint Parry; "Forced to be free", John Hope Mason; Rousseau, the problem of sovereignty and the limits of political obligation, John Charvet; eternal vigilance - Rousseau's death penalty, Felicity Baker. Part 3 Locating Rousseau's meanings and significance: Rousseau and his critics on the fanciful liberties we have lost, Robert Wokler; "But in a republic, men are needed" - guardians of the boundaries of liberty, Ursula Vogel; Rousseau's theory of liberty, Maurice Cranston; Rousseau's soi-disant liberty, Lester G. Crocker; Rousseau and totalitarianism - with hindsight?, Iain Hampsher-Monk.
