Preparing for the journey: an introduction
I. From the garden to the city: the tragic passage
Revisiting the garden's solitaires
From the garden to the blessed country: the precarious passage
The city: life in the ousted condition
Overcoming moral evil: Rousseau at the crossroads
Reforming the city: the extreme public path
Evading the city: the private path
The mountain village: the path to family, work, community, and love
Reconciling citizen and solitaire: religious dimensions of the middle way
Residual conflict: democracy and ineluctable friction
A way forward, Rousseau and 21st-century democracy.
