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Emma Planinc’s book revives an Enlightenment naturalism that convinced Jean-Jacques Rousseau to call for emancipation from dependence as our most basic human entitlement. One of the boldest interventions in political theory in years, Regenerative Politics argues that no era needs Rousseau’s arresting suggestion so much as our own. -- Samuel Moyn, Yale University

For a generation witnessing the demise of the human in politics, Planinc offers in this penetrating account the consolation of deep historical insight regarding the risks, but also the necessary rewards, of political regeneration. -- Darrin M. McMahon, author of <i>Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea</i> Emma Planinc’s Regenerative Politics is unsettling in the very best way. It recovers a French Enlightenment conception of human emancipation that is at once refreshing and risky. It is also that rare thing—a book that is as honest about promises as it is about perils. -- Alison McQueen, author of <i>Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times</i> Emma Planinc’s book revives an Enlightenment naturalism that convinced Jean-Jacques Rousseau to call for emancipation from dependence as our most basic human entitlement. One of the boldest interventions in political theory in years, Regenerative Politics argues that no era needs Rousseau’s arresting suggestion so much as our own. -- Samuel Moyn, author of <i>Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times</i> Bracingly written and rigorously argued, Regenerative Politics makes a profoundly illuminating contribution to our understanding of Enlightenment political thought and to its fundamental contemporary legacies. By demonstrating the key scientific and theoretical sources of eighteenth-century conceptions of humanity’s self-making, Planinc establishes the deep roots of revolutionary thinking that could fortify transformative political commitments in our own troubled times. -- Sankar Muthu, author of <i>Enlightenment Against Empire</i>

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Emma Planinc is an assistant professor of political theory at the University of Notre Dame.

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