We are requesting proposals for scholarly papers both for a special expanded panel session at NEASECS 2002, and to form the basis of a proposed edited volume arising from the session. Papers should address enlightenment discussions of the multiplication and/or limitation of desire within modern society. Because Rousseau in particular developed influential models both of the multiplication of desire (especially in his second _Discourse_) and of the rational, moral, and political limitation of desire (in his _Social Contract_), treatments of his work will serve as a centre for the panel, not, however, to the exclusion of other enlightenment discussions of the issues involved.