Political Anthropology from Rousseau to Freud

A confrontation between ways of accounting for society in an individualistic framework: the social contract; political economy; individualistic sociology; society as crowd; mass psychology; and sociopolitical institutions. Creating a typology of the ways in which a given anthropology constrains conceptions of the social and political order. Writers include Rousseau, Hume, Smith, Constant, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Freud.