The concept of political domination in Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau develops a genealogical reflection on political domination. The in telligibility of the genealogy does not rest on the psychological category of craving for power. That is why Rousseau differentiates between tyranny a nd despotism. Rousseau stresses this difference in two works: Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les hommes and Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques . Tyranny and despotism differ in that the latter produces and ideological speech. Political domination depends upon a double process. In the first pr ocess, ruling implies creating inequality in the political order, thus excl uding people from political decisions. In order to mask this political ineq uality, the ideological speech produces two fictions: the fiction of the gu aranty and the fiction of the community. In the second process, ruling impl ies generating public opinion which, in turn, adheres to this political ord er.