Abstract

The essay aims to cast light on the logic which constitutes both the individual's experience and the administration of the State in Rousseau's political thought. In both cases, the device of good government which is at play is not reducible to the executive pattern which appears in the "Social contract", but is rather rooted in the necessity to conceive the juridical order in a permanent relation of conversion and metamorphosis with the natural normativity of the body politic's physical and moral power.