Books by Laurence D. (Carleton College) Cooper

An interpretation of Rousseau's thought that focuses on his complex concept of nature as one major key to understanding his legacy to modern political philosophy. It examines his efforts to show why, despite a challenge from science, nature can remain a standard for human behaviour.

Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more - to be infinitely more. This book focuses on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation.