The precarious relationship between the common will and the partial will, which defined the political-economic space of intervention and the workings of providence in Rousseau, is shifted to the governing machine of the market, which assumes the function of law with its ongoing transformation of blind and selfish aspirations into the social interest or common good.
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providence | BrE ˈprɒvɪd(ə)ns, AmE ˈprɑvəd(ə)ns | noun 1 (care of God etc.) Vorsehung (Fem.) ▸ [divine] providence die [göttliche] Vorsehung ▸ a special providence eine besondere Fügung [des Schicksals] 2 Providence (God) der Himmel 3 (foresight) Weitblick (Mask.) ▸ have the providence to do sth so vorausschauend sein, etw. zu tun 4 (thrift) Sparsamkeit (Fem.)