The present study addresses the question of uncertainty in individual deliberation in Rousseau’s philosophy. Accordingly, it intends to consider in a new light his account of virtue and citizenship which cannot possibly be defined as systematic obedience to the general will. Weakness of the...

This paper explores the relations between the Kuhnian concept of 'paradigm' and the Foucauldian notion of 'episteme' and how they may help us to think about economic discourse. In the fields of philosophy and history of ideas, such relations, though not deeply investigated, have been noticed...