Abstract
From the perspective of the philosophical history of ideas, the article deals with the images of Rousseau in 19th-century French Social Science. It focuses in particular on the reception of Rousseau by Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim compared to that of some of their contemporaries, such as Pierre Leroux and Alfred Espinas, as well as some of the leading figures in 20th-century Human Sciences, such as Claude Levi-Strauss and Louis Dumont. By pointing out some hasty analogies (particularly between Rousseau and Comte, Rousseau and Descartes, Rousseau and Bastiat, between Rousseau’s general will and Durkheim’s collective consciousness), the Author highlights some of the key moments in the evolution of the close relationship between the scientific reflection on Society and Politics.
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