Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second Discourses - together with Rousseau's extensive Replies to critics of these Discourses; the Essay on the Origin of Languages; the Letter to Voltaire on Providence; as well as several minor but illuminating writings - the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book. In these as well as in his later writings, Rousseau probes the very premises of modern thought. His influence was wide-reaching from the very first, and it has continued to grow since his death. The American and the French Revolutions were profoundly affected by his thought, as were Romanticism and Idealism. This new edition features up-to-date translations, an expanded introduction, and an extensive editorial apparatus designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009158978
• Artikelnr.: 66176925

Autorenporträt

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 - 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educational thought. His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. Rousseau's sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise (1761) was important to the development of preromanticism and romanticism in fiction. His Emile, or On Education (1762) is an educational treatise on the place of the individual in society. Rousseau's autobiographical writings-the posthumously published Confessions (composed in 1769), which initiated the modern autobiography, and the unfinished Reveries of a Solitary Walker (composed 1776-1778)-exemplified the late-18th-century Age of Sensibility, and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing. Rousseau befriended fellow philosophy writer Denis Diderot in 1742, and would later write about Diderot's romantic troubles in his Confessions. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophers among members of the Jacobin Club. He was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A brief guide to further reading
A note on the texts
A note on the translations
A note on the editorial notes and index
Discourse on the Sciences and Arts or First Discourse
Preface
Part I
Part II
Replies to Critics
Letter to M. l'Abbé Raynal
Observations [to Stanislas, King of Poland]
Letter to Grimm
Last Reply
Letter about a New Refutation
Preface to Narcissus
Preface of a Second Letter to Bordes
Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men or Second Discourse
Epistle Dedicatory
Preface
Exordium
Part I
Part II
Rousseau's notes
Replies to critics
Letter to Philopolis
Reply to Charles-Georges Le Roy
Letter to Voltaire
Essay on the Origin of Languages
Idea of the method in the composition of a book
Discourse on the Virtue a Hero Most Needs or On Heroic Virtue
List of abbreviations and textual conventions
Editorial notes
Index of editors, translators, and annotators
General index.