Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Publisher Information -- General Will in Political Philosophy -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- 1.1. From St. Paul to Denis Diderot -- 1.2. The general will in the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Chapter Two -- 2.1. Beyond the abstractions of reason -- 2.2. The social sources of identity. Towards contextualism -- 2.3. Teleologism, historicism, moral ideal -- 2.4. "The duties of citizenship" -- Chapter Three -- 3.1. Novelty and limitations of the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- 3.2. The general will as... -- 3.3 Further history of the concept of the general will -- Chapter Four -- 4.1 Liberal communitarianism -- 4.2. Is idealism liberal-communitarian? -- 4.3 The idealist theory of rights -- 4.4 What became of the idealist theory of rights -- 4.5 Determinants of the liberal communitarianism of the idealists* -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Back Matter -- Also Available.