Books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract (Penguin Books for Philosophy)
"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains"
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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The Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, St. Augustine
Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood, through the development of his philosophical and political ideas, his struggle against the French authorities and exile from France following the publication of Emile. Depicting a life of adventure, persecution, paranoia, and brilliant achievement, The Confessions is a landmark work by one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment, which was a direct influence upon the work of Proust, Goethe and Tolstoy among others.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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The Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, St. Augustine
"God is our home but many of us have strayed from our native land.
The venerable authors of these Spiritual Classics are expert guides--
may we follow their directions home." --Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Writing in the last years of the fourth century a.d., Saint Augustine of Hippo created what is at once the first true autobiography in Western literature and among the most sophisticated yet accessible theological arguments in the history of Christianity. With extraordinary candor and psychological acumen, Augustine recounts his passage from a life of sensuality, Manichaean superstition, and empty careerism to a genuine spiritual awakening, and he articulates views on marriage, morality, and faith that have shaped our discourse ever since. The Confessions allows us to appreciate both the startling modernity of Augustine's insights and the imperishable poetry of his voice. With a new Preface by MacArthur Fellow Patricia Hampl,
author of Virgin Time and A Romantic Education.
In the annals of spirituality, certain books stand out both for their historical importance and for their continued relevance. The Vintage Spiritual Classics series offers the greatest of these works in authoritative new editions, with specially commissioned essays by noted contemporary commentators. Filled with eloquence and fresh insight, encouragement and solace, Vintage Spiritual Classics are incomparable resources for all readers who seek a more substantive understanding of mankind's relation to the divine.
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Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings
A lively new translation of Rousseau's best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" are the famous opening words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract, a work of political philosophy that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to sovereignty, Rousseau argues instead for a pact—a "social contract"—that should exist among all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of governing power. From this premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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The Social Contract: Man Was Born Free, and He Is Everywhere in Chains (Penguin Great Ideas)
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.
Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since—seen as both a blueprint for political terror and as a fundamental statement of democracy.
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The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau’s most important political writings―The Social Contract and The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality)―andpresents essays by major scholars that shed light on the dimensions and implications of these texts.
Susan Dunn’s introductory essay underlines the unity of Rousseau’s political thought and explains why his ideas influenced Jacobin revolutionaries in France but repelled American revolutionaries across the ocean. Gita May’s essay discusses Rousseau as cultural critic. Robert N. Bellah explores Rousseau’s attempt to resolve the tension between the individual’s desire for freedom and the obligations that society imposes. David Bromwich analyzes Rousseau as a psychologist of the human self. And Conor Cruise O’Brien takes on the “noxious,” “deranged” Rousseau, excoriated by Edmund Burke but admired by Robespierre and Thomas Jefferson. Written from different, even opposing perspectives, these lucid essays convey a sense of the vital and contentious debate surrounding Rousseau and his legacy.
For this edition Susan Dunn has provided a new translation of the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts andhas revised a previously published translation of The Social Contract.
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Julia ,ó, La Nueva Heloisa: Cartas De Dos Amantes Habitantes De Una Pequeña Ciudad, A La Falda De Los Alpes... (Spanish Edition)
A captivating chronicle of building in modern-day Charleston, making a case for architecture based on historical precedent, local context, and the ability to delight
Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America’s first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque houses. The Holy City, named for its profusion of churches, exudes an irresistible charm. Award-winning author and cultural critic Witold Rybczynski unfolds a series of stories about a group of youthful architects, builders, and developers based in Charleston: a self-taught home builder, an Air Force pilot, a fledgling architect, and a bluegrass mandolin player.
Beginning in the 1980s, this cast of characters, exercising a kind of amateur mastery, produced an eclectic array of buildings inspired by the past—including a domed Byzantine drawing room, a fanciful medieval castle, a restored freedman’s cottage, a miniature Palladian villa, and a contemporary Mediterranean street. In his careful profiles of these protagonists and the challenges they have overcome in realizing their dreams, Rybczynski compellingly emphasizes the importance of architecture and urban design on a local level, how an old city can remake itself by invention as well as replication, and the role that individuals still play in transforming the urban landscapes around them.
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La Nouvelle Héloïse Ou Lettres De Deux Amans ...... (French Edition)
The five diarists in this book did not survive the war. But their words did. Each diary reveals one voice, one teenager coping with the impossible. We see David Rubinowicz struggling against fear and terror. Yitzhak Rudashevski shows us how Jews clung to culture, to learning, and to hope, until there was no hope at all. Moshe Ze'ev Flinker is the voice of religion, constantly seeking answers from God for relentless tragedy. Eva Heyman demonstrates the unquenchable hunger for life that sustained her until the very last moment. And finally, Anne Frank reveals the largest truth they all left for us: Hitler could kill millions, but he could not destroy the human spirit. These stark accounts of how five young people faced the worst of human evil are a testament, and an inspiration, to the best of the human soul.
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The Social Contract and The Discourses (Everyman's Library)
Two works in one volume
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first, and the most eloquent and versatile, of that extraordinary line of radical modern thinkers who aimed their disenchantment at the very roots of the human social order and thereby forever reshaped the way we deal with one another. Of Rousseau’s many contributions to the tradition he inaugurated, the one for which he is most revered and that makes these pages glow with conviction is his passionate indignation about anything that trammels individual freedom.
This revised edition of G. D. H. Cole’s celebrated translation includes an appendix of sections from the first manuscript draft of The Social Contract and the passage in Rousseau’s novel Émile in which he summarizes its argument, along with Cole’s original preface, which has itself become a classic.
Translated by G. D. H. Cole
Revised and augmented by J. H. Brumfitt and John C. Hall
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The Essential Writings of Rousseau (Modern Library Classics)
Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and persuasive critics. His extraordinarily original observations on politics, education, and human nature were provocative in their day and remain resonant more than two hundred years after his death. Rousseau’s 1762 treatise The Social Contract laid intellectual groundwork for both the American and French Revolutions, influencing such figures as Thomas Jefferson. An eloquent writer with profound insight into human psychology, Rousseau also penned one of the most compelling autobiographies ever written—the magisterial Confessions. The entirety of the first three books of that masterpiece along with the complete Social Contract are included in this indispensable volume.
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Emile Ou De L'education Edition Andre Charrak (French Edition)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, editions garnier-FLammarion
La publication de L'Émile, en 1762, restitue au problème de l'éducation sa place centrale en philosophie. De ses premiers mois jusqu'à la rencontre amoureuse, émile est suivi dans chaque étape, à travers des expériences qui attestent d'abord le souci de considérer "l'enfant dans l'enfant", au lieu de le sortir de son âge. Rousseau montre qu'il est possible d'éduquer un homme selon la nature et de quelle façon les vices et l'inégalité caractérisent désormais la condition humaine : double enjeu qui constitue sa "théorie de l'homme". La richesse incomparable de ce maître-livre tient aussi aux tensions qui le parcourent. Rousseau refuse le péché originel mais il doit rendre raison du mal et de la souffrance que ce dogme interdisait d'ignorer ; il critique les philosophes de son temps mais il pousse à ses limites leur méthode empiriste ; il proclame : "je hais les livres", mais il fournit le panorama le plus juste et le plus instruit de la culture du XVIIIesiècle, en face de l'Encyclopédie et, pour partie, contre elle. Parus ensemble, Émile et le Contrat social furent condamnés à Paris puis à Genève : la force du traité d'éducation n'échappa pas aux censeurs, même si Rousseau prétendait ne livrer que "les rêveries d'un visionnaire". Car la forme même de la fiction arrache l'ouvrage aux circonstances : pas plus que ses lecteurs des Lumières, nous ne sommes à l'abri de ses leçons.
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Les confessions Livres VII à XII
Rousseau ne voulait pas qu'un portrait de lui figure en tête de ses Œuvres. Son vrai portrait, le seul qui ne mentirait pas, c'est en lisant ses Confessions qu'on l'aurait sous les yeux : "Je veux montrer à mes semblables un homme dans toute la vérité de la nature ; et cet homme, ce sera moi." Mais quelle identité assigner à ce moi qui déclare : "Je suis autre" ? Autre que tous les autres, et pourtant leur semblable. Perpétuellement autre que soi, et pourtant toujours même. "Bizarre et singulier assemblage" d'identifications multiples où Narcisse et Caton, Alceste et Céladon, Mentor et le petit Jésus, Socrate et la cigale, Orphée et la fourmi, le rat des villes, celui des champs, le berger extravagant, l'agneau immaculé et le bouc émissaire tiennent tour à tour le devant de la scène, sans nuire pour autant à l'unité d'action, "tant tout se tient, tout est un dans mon caractère". Au lecteur d'en juger.
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Lettres Philosophiques (Ldp Classiques) (English and French Edition);Ldp Classiques
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Les Confessions 2; II
Product Description Rousseau ne voulait pas qu'un portrait de lui figure en tête de ses Œuvres. Son vrai portrait, le seul qui ne mentirait pas, c'est en lisant ses Confessions qu'on l'aurait sous les yeux : "Je veux montrer à mes semblables un homme dans toute la vérité de la nature ; et cet homme, ce sera moi." Mais quelle identité assigner à ce moi qui déclare : "Je suis autre" ? Autre que tous les autres, et pourtant leur semblable. Perpétuellement autre que soi, et pourtant toujours même. "Bizarre et singulier assemblage" d'identifications multiples où Narcisse et Caton, Alceste et Céladon, Mentor et le petit Jésus, Socrate et la cigale, Orphée et la fourmi, le rat des villes, celui des champs, le berger extravagant, l'agneau immaculé et le bouc émissaire tiennent tour à tour le devant de la scène, sans nuire pour autant à l'unité d'action, "tant tout se tient, tout est un dans mon caractère". Au lecteur d'en juger. From the Back Cover Rousseau ne voulait pas qu'un portrait de lui figure en tête de ses oeuvres. Son vrai portrait, le seul qui ne mentirait pas, c'est en lisant ses Confessions qu'on l'aurait sous les yeux : «Je veux montrer à mes semblables un homme dans toute la vérité de la nature ; et cet homme, ce sera moi.» Mais quelle identité assigner à ce moi qui déclare : «Je suis autre» ? Autre que tous les autres, et pourtant leur semblable. Perpétuellement autre que soi, et pourtant toujours même. «Bizarre et singulier assemblage» d'identifications multiples où Narcisse et Caton, Alceste et Céladon, Mentor et le petit Jésus, Socrate et la cigale, Orphée et la fourmi, le rat des villes, celui des champs, le berger extravagant, l'agneau immaculé et le bouc émissaire tiennent tour à tour le devant de la scène, sans nuire pour autant à l'unité d'action, «tant tout se tient, tout est un dans mon caractère». Au lecteur d'en juger.
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Discours Sur L'Origine Et Les Fondements De L'Inegalite Parmi Les Hommes
"Je conçois dans l'Espece humaine deux sortes d'inégalité ; l'une que j'appelle naturelle ou Phisique, parce qu'elle est établie par la Nature, et qui consiste dans la différence des âges, de la santé, des forces du Corps, et des qualités de l'Esprit, ou de l'Ame ; L'autre qu'on peut appeler inégalité morale, ou politique, parce qu'elle dépend d'une sorte de convention, et qu'elle est établie, ou du moins autorisée par le consentement des Hommes. Celle-ci consiste dans les differents Privileges, dont quelques-uns jouissent, au préjudice des autres, comme d'être plus riches, plus honorés, plus Puissans qu'eux, ou mêmes de s'en faire obéïr."Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire
En sortant d'une longue et douce rêverie, en me voyant entouré de verdure, de fleurs, d'oiseaux et laissant errer mes yeux au loin sur les romanesques rivages qui bordaient une vaste étendue d'eau claire et cristalline, j'assimilais à mes fictions tous ces aimables objets ; et me trouvant enfin ramené par degrés à moi-même et à ce qui m'entourait, je ne pouvais marquer le point de séparation des fictions aux réalités ; tant tout concourait également à me rendre chère la vie recueillie et solitaire que je menais dans ce beau séjour.
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Rousseau : Oeuvres complètes, tome 5 (French Edition) (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade)
Ce volume contient les oeuvres suivantes : Écrits sur la musique, la langue et le théâtre : À M. d'Alembert - Projet concernant de nouveaux signes pour la musique - Dissertation sur la musique moderne - Lettre sur l'opéra italien et français - Lettre à M. Grimm, au sujet des remarques ajoutées à sa lettre sur Omphale - Lettre d'un symphoniste de l'académie royale de musique à ses camarades de l'orchestre - Lettre sur la musique française - L'Origine de la mélodie - Examen de deux principes avancés par M. Rameau - Essai sur l'origine des langues - Lettre à M. Burney et fragments d'observations sur l'Alceste de Gluck - Extrait d'une réponse du petit faiseur sur l'Orphée de Gluck - Sur les richesses, sur le goût - Textes historiques - Textes scientifiques - Dictionnaire de musique. Édition publiée sous la direction de Bernard Gagnebin et de Marcel Raymond. Avec, pour ce volume, la collaboration de Samuel Baud-Bovy, Brenno Boccadoro, Xavier Bouvier, Marie-Élisabeth Duchez, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Sidney Kleinman, Olivier Pot, Jean Rousset, Pierre Speziali, Jean Starobinski, Charles Wirz et André Wyss. Les écrits de Rousseau sur la musique étaient peu accessibles. Ils figurent intégralement dans ce volume, qui contient notamment le Dictionnaire de musique né des articles que commanda Diderot, pour l'Encyclopédie, à celui en qui l'on voyait alors, avant tout, un musicien. Rousseau, il est vrai, tablait sur cette facette de son talent pour se faire une place dans la société. Il comptait sans Rameau qui ne s'est pas privé de dire le mal qu'il pensait des Muses galantes. Terrassé, délesté de son honneur et de ses honoraires, Rousseau a fait de son contempteur l'incarnation d'une musique française lors de la querelle des Bouffons, il s'est employé à montrer que le système ramiste menait à un art de la non-communication. Or, «tout chant qui ne dit rien n'est rien». La musique est un langage, elle doit être l'art de l'expression vivante. Rousseau fonde sa pensée linguistique et musicale sur la nécessité de réconcilier la plénitude des origines et le savoir. Se profile alors le rêve d'un art régénéré : la poésie parle à l'esprit, la musique sollicite l'oreille, la peinture réjouit les yeux ; la réunion des trois renoue avec les premières fêtes, à l'époque de l'unité de la parole et de la mélodie. C'est à un chef-d' uvre de la civilisation, l'opéra, que Rousseau confie la mission de provoquer ce retour à l'origine, qui est aussi annulation du temps.
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A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
In A Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau’s political and social arguments in the Discourse were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Penguin Classics)
Ten meditations written in the two years before Rousseau's death in 1778 provide an excellent introduction to the thinker's complex world, expressing in its full force the agony of isolation and alienation
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. This volume includes the essay on Political Economy, The Social Contract, and the extensive, late Considerations on the Government of Poland, as well as the important draft on The Right of War and a selection of his letters on various aspects of his political thought. The Social Contract, Rousseau's most comprehensive political work - he called it a 'small treatise' - was condemned on publication by both the civil and the ecclesiastical authorities in France as well as in Geneva, and warrants for its author's arrest were issued. Rousseau was forced to flee and it is during this period that he wrote some of his autobiographical works. This new edition features an expanded introduction, and an extensive editorial apparatus designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.
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Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings
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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The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
When Rousseau first read his Confessions to a 1770 gathering in Paris, reactions varied from admiration of his candor to doubts about his sanity to outrage. Indeed, Rousseau's intent and approach were revolutionary. As one of the first attempts at autobiography, the Confessions' novelty lay not in just its retelling the facts of Rousseau's life, but in its revelation of his innermost feelings and its frank description of the strengths and failings of his character.
Based on his doctrine of natural goodness, Rousseau intended the Confessions as a testing ground to explore his belief that, as Christopher Kelly writes, "people are to be measured by the depth and nature of their feelings." Re-created here in a meticulously documented new translation based on the definitive Pléiade edition, the work represents Rousseau's attempt to forge connections among his beliefs, his feelings, and his life. More than a "behind-the-scenes look at the private life of a public man," Kelly writes, "the Confessions is at the center of Rousseau's philosophical enterprise."
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Confessions
'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. The book vividly illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the writing of autobiography: defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment. Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource of language, to convey what he despairs of putting into words: the personal quality of one's own existence. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views. Returning to Paris the philosopher determines to keep a faithful record of the thoughts and ideas that come to him on his perambulations. Part reminiscence, part reflection, enlivened by anecdote and encounters, the Reveries form a kind of sequel to his Confessions, but they are more introspective and less defensive: Rousseau finds happiness in solitude, walks in nature, botanizing, and meditation. Writing an account of his walks becomes a means of achieving self-knowledge and safeguarding for himself the pleasure that others, he is convinced, seek to deny him. The Reveries, shaped by the unmediated nature of Rousseau's thought processes, give powerfully lyrical expression to a painfully tortured soul in search of peace. This new translation is accompanied by an introduction and notes that explore the nature of the work and its historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Emile: Or Treatise on Education (Great Books in Philosophy)
In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher presented concepts that had a significant influence on the development of pedagogy, and yet many of his ideas still sound radical today. Written in reaction to the stultifying system of rote learning and memorization prevalent throughout Europe in Rousseau's time, Emile is a utopian vision of child-centered education, full of the sentiments of Romanticism, which Rousseau himself inspired.Imagining a typical boy named Emile, Rousseau creates an ideal model of one-on-one tutelage from infancy to manhood with himself as the child's mentor. "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." This is the first of many provocative statements that characterize this work and are a hallmark of Rousseau's arresting rhetoric. As in so many of his other famous works, here too Rousseau asserts his main thesis that human beings by nature are good; it is only the distorting influences of civilization that have corrupted them.If this is true, then in educating children one must do nothing to interfere with human nature in its natural course. Far from being the chief means by which society inculcates its rules and principles, education should be the method of helping youths discover the inherent truths of their own human nature. From infancy to young adulthood learning should come purely from personal experience. Rather than imparting facts, teachers should foster self-discovery, so that knowledge is acquired through following innate curiosity, not vicariously through the statements of others.Educators as well as students of philosophy will find much to admire in Rousseau's original and still radical ideas.
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Rousseau: Oeuvres completes, tome 2 (French Edition)
Les écrits de Rousseau sur la musique étaient peu accessibles. Ils figurent intégralement dans ce volume, qui contient notamment le Dictionnaire de musique né des articles que commanda Diderot, pour l'Encyclopédie, à celui en qui l'on voyait alors, avant tout, un musicien. Rousseau, il est vrai, tablait sur cette facette de son talent pour se faire une place dans la société. Il comptait sans Rameau qui ne s'est pas privé de dire le mal qu'il pensait des Muses galantes. Terrassé, délesté de son honneur et de ses honoraires, Rousseau a fait de son contempteur l'incarnation d'une musique française lors de la querelle des Bouffons, il s'est employé à montrer que le système ramiste menait à un art de la non-communication. Or, «tout chant qui ne dit rien n'est rien». La musique est un langage, elle doit être l'art de l'expression vivante. Rousseau fonde sa pensée linguistique et musicale sur la nécessité de réconcilier la plénitude des origines et le savoir. Se profile alors le rêve d'un art régénéré : la poésie parle à l'esprit, la musique sollicite l'oreille, la peinture réjouit les yeux ; la réunion des trois renoue avec les premières fêtes, à l'époque de l'unité de la parole et de la mélodie. C'est à un chef-d' uvre de la civilisation, l'opéra, que Rousseau confie la mission de provoquer ce retour à l'origine, qui est aussi annulation du temps.
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Rousseau - Oeuvres Completes, Tome 1 - Les Confessions Autres textes autobiographiques [Bibliotheque de la Pleiade] (French Edition)
Les Confessions - Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques, Dialogues - Les Rêveries du Promeneur solitaire - Fragments autobiographiques et documents biographiques.
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Oeuvres Completes 3 - (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade) (French Edition)
Ce volume contient les oeuvres suivantes : Du Contrat social - Écrits politiques. Édition publiée sous la direction de Bernard Gagnebin et de Marcel Raymond. Avec, pour ce volume, la collaboration de François Bouchardy, Jean-Daniel Candaux, Robert Derathé, Jean Fabre, Jean Starobinski et Sven Stelling-Michaud. Les écrits de Rousseau sur la musique étaient peu accessibles. Ils figurent intégralement dans ce volume, qui contient notamment le Dictionnaire de musique né des articles que commanda Diderot, pour l'Encyclopédie, à celui en qui l'on voyait alors, avant tout, un musicien. Rousseau, il est vrai, tablait sur cette facette de son talent pour se faire une place dans la société. Il comptait sans Rameau qui ne s'est pas privé de dire le mal qu'il pensait des Muses galantes. Terrassé, délesté de son honneur et de ses honoraires, Rousseau a fait de son contempteur l'incarnation d'une musique française lors de la querelle des Bouffons, il s'est employé à montrer que le système ramiste menait à un art de la non-communication. Or, «tout chant qui ne dit rien n'est rien». La musique est un langage, elle doit être l'art de l'expression vivante. Rousseau fonde sa pensée linguistique et musicale sur la nécessité de réconcilier la plénitude des origines et le savoir. Se profile alors le rêve d'un art régénéré : la poésie parle à l'esprit, la musique sollicite l'oreille, la peinture réjouit les yeux ; la réunion des trois renoue avec les premières fêtes, à l'époque de l'unité de la parole et de la mélodie. C'est à un chef-d' uvre de la civilisation, l'opéra, que Rousseau confie la mission de provoquer ce retour à l'origine, qui est aussi annulation du temps.
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The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"
Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees that Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This new edition of his major political writings, published in the year of the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth, renews attention to the perennial importance of Rousseau’s work.
The book brings together superb new translations by renowned Rousseau scholar John T. Scott of three of Rousseau’s works: the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, and On the Social Contract. The two Discourses show Rousseau developing his well-known conception of the natural goodness of man and the problems posed by life in society. With the Social Contract, Rousseau became the first major thinker to argue that democracy is the only legitimate form of political organization. Scott’s extensive introduction enhances our understanding of these foundational writings, providing background information, social and historical context, and guidance for interpreting the works. Throughout, translation and editorial notes clarify ideas and terms that might not be immediately familiar to most readers.
The three works collected in The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau represent an important contribution to eighteenth-century political theory that has exerted an extensive influence on generations of thinkers, beginning with the leaders of the French Revolution and continuing to the present day. The new translations on offer here will be welcomed by a wide readership of both Rousseau scholars and readers with a general interest in political thought.
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Emile: Or On Education
The definitive translation of Rousseau’s Emile, a foundational text in the philosophy of education
Widely hailed as the most accessible and authoritative edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, or On Education, this acclaimed translation by bestselling author Alan Bloom elevates what Rousseau considered to be the “best and most important” of his published writing into something more: a prescription, fresh and dazzling, for the education of autonomous, responsible—and truly democratic—human beings. Initially published in 1763 at the height of the Enlightenment, Emile articulates Rousseau’s philosophy of education through the novelistic device of a fictional tutor’s encounters with his pupil from infancy to adolescence, illustrating how ideal citizens can be raised to survive in a corrupt society.
In addition to his translation of this classic of Enlightenment philosophy, Bloom offers an incisive introduction that connects the structure and themes of Rousseau’s book to timeless questions about teaching children which have persisted in the field of education, helping readers understand how to implement the philosopher’s broader insights into the possibilities—and limitations—of human nature.
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On the Origin of Language
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Gottfried Herder
This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's book Of Grammatology, and both essays are valuable historical and philosophical documents.
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Rousseau: 'The Discourses' and Other Early Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, which together form the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume I contains the earlier writings such as the First and Second Discourses. The American and French Revolutions were profoundly affected by Rousseau's writing, thus illustrating the scope of his influence. Volume II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract. The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau to flee. In exile he wrote both autobiographical and political works. These volumes contain comprehensive introductions, chronologies, and guides to further reading, and will enable students to fully understand the writings of one of the world's greatest thinkers.
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Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Volume II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract. The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau to flee. In exile he wrote both autobiographical and political works.
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Les Confessions (French Edition)
Rousseau ne voulait pas qu'un portrait de lui figure en tête de ses Œuvres. Son vrai portrait, le seul qui ne mentirait pas, c'est en lisant ses Confessions qu'on l'aurait sous les yeux : "Je veux montrer à mes semblables un homme dans toute la vérité de la nature ; et cet homme, ce sera moi." Mais quelle identité assigner à ce moi qui déclare : "Je suis autre" ? Autre que tous les autres, et pourtant leur semblable. Perpétuellement autre que soi, et pourtant toujours même. "Bizarre et singulier assemblage" d'identifications multiples où Narcisse et Caton, Alceste et Céladon, Mentor et le petit Jésus, Socrate et la cigale, Orphée et la fourmi, le rat des villes, celui des champs, le berger extravagant, l'agneau immaculé et le bouc émissaire tiennent tour à tour le devant de la scène, sans nuire pour autant à l'unité d'action, "tant tout se tient, tout est un dans mon caractère". Au lecteur d'en juger.
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Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract (Oxford World's Classics)
Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. Also included in this edition is Rousseau's Discourse on Political Economy", a key transitional work between his Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. This new translation offers fresh insight into a cornerstone of political thought, which is further illuminated by a comprehensive introduction and notes.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our material but also of our psychological independence - then how can we recover the peaceful self-sufficiency of life in the state of nature? We cannot return to a simpler time, but measuring the costs of progress may help us to imagine alternatives to the corruption and oppressive conformity of modern society. Rousseau's sweeping account of humanity's social and political development epitomizes the innovative boldness of the Englightment, and it is one of the most provocative and influential works of the eighteenth century. This new translation includes all Rousseau's own notes, and Patrick Coleman's introduction builds on recent key scholarship, considering particularly the relationship between political and aesthetic thought. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Donald Cress's highly regarded translation, based on the critical Pléiade edition of 1964, is here issued with a lively introduction by James Miller, who brings into sharp focus the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This new edition includes a select bibliography, a note on the text, a translator's note, and Rousseau's own Notes on the Discourse.
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Julie, ou, La nouvelle Héloïse
"J'ai vu les moeurs de mon temps, et j'ai publié ces lettres" : c'est par ces mots que l'"éditeur" Rousseau ouvre La Nouvelle Héloïse, correspondance amoureuse entre Julie d'Étange et son précepteur Saint-Preux. Sur les rives du lac Léman, ces "belles âmes" forment une petite société idéale, où priment les passions douces et la sincérité du sentiment, à l'écart des maux de la civilisation.Dans la lignée des Lettres persanes de Montesquieu, Rousseau conçoit son oeuvre comme un laboratoire d'idées nouvelles, qui concentre les questionnements de son époque sur l'homme et ses passions. Roman d'amour, chant élégiaque, mais aussi fiction expérimentale au croisement de l'anthropologie et de la politique : La Nouvelle Héloïse, plus grand succès de librairie de son temps, consacre avec éclat les noces du roman et de la philosophie au XVIIIe siècle.Cette édition inclut les Sujets d'estampes, l'Entretien sur les romans, les Observations de Rousseau sur les retranchements voulus par Malesherbes et Les Amours de Milord Édouard Bomston.
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On the Social Contract: with Geneva Manuscript and Political Economy
Complete with interpretive and biographical information and clarificaion on many previously obscure references in the text, this critical edition of Rousseau's On the Social Contract also contains translations of Political Economy and the Geneva Manuscript.
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The First and Second Discourses
As one of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this edition of First and Second Discourses contains abundant notes that range from simple explanations to speculative interpretations.
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On the Social Contract
Contents include a note on the translation, introduction by Peter Gay, and a bibliography.
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Julie, or the New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps (Collected Writings of Rousseau)
An elegant translation of one of the most popular novels of its time. Rousseau's great epistolary novel, Julie, or the New Heloise, has been virtually unavailable in English since 1810. In it, Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm. The story follows the fates and smoldering passions of Julie d'Etange and St. Preux, a one-time lover who re-enters Julie's life at the invitation of her unsuspecting husband, M. de Wolmar. The complex tones of this work made it a commercial success and a continental sensation when it first appeared in 1761, and its embodiment of Rousseau's system of thought, in which feelings and intellect are intertwined, redefined the function and form of fiction for decades. As the characters negotiate a complex maze of passion and virtue, their purity of soul and honest morality reveal, as Rousseau writes in his preface, "the subtleties of heart of which this work is full." A comprehensive introduction and careful annotations make this novel accessible to contemporary readers, both as an embodiment of Rousseau's philosophy and as a portrayal of the tension and power inherent in domestic life.
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Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre (Agora Editions)
This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing some of the most sensitive literary criticism ever written (especially of Molière), the book is an excellent introduction to the principles of classical political thought. It demonstrates the paradoxes of Rousseau's thought and clearly displays the temperament that led him to repudiate the hopes of the Enlightenment.
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The Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Hackett Classics)
First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation. This accurate and graceful translation by Charles Butterworth--the only English version based on Rousseau's original text--is accompanied by an interpretive essay, extensive notes, and a comprehensive index.
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The Basic Political Writings (English and French Edition)
This substantially revised new edition of Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings features a brilliant new Introduction by David Wootton, a revision by Donald A. Cress of his own 1987 translation of Rousseau's most important political writings, and the addition of Cress' new translation of Rousseau's State of ?War. New footnotes, headnotes, and a chronology by David Wootton provide expert guidance to first-time readers of the texts.
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Rousseau on Philosophy, Morality, and Religion
The pioneering collection Rousseau on Philosophy, Morality, and Religion brings together Rousseau's key published and unpublished (in English translation), writings on philosophy, morality, and religion. This comprehensive, tightly constructed anthology can easily stand alone or serve as an exceptional companion to Rousseau's First and Second Discourses and Social Contract. Readers will find herein the definitive translation of the key Essay on the Origin of Languages, rarer works such as the Four Letters to M. the President de Malesherbes--containing one of Rousseau's most important statements about his thought and its origin and development--and much more. Less well-known, less accessible, and frequently overlooked, these brilliant shorter pieces in many ways encapsulate Rousseau's thought more directly or more simply than do his longer works. Editor Chris Kelly's incisive preface and introduction neatly contextualize the eleven primary selections, and a Rousseau chronology and bibliography round out the collection.
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The Plan for Perpetual Peace, on the Government of Poland, and Other Writings on History and Politics
These abridgements of The Plan for Perpetual Peace (published 1761), On the Government of Poland (1771-1772), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's other writings on history and politics represent his considerations of the practical applications of key principles developed in his best-known theoretical writings. In this latest volume in the classic series, Rousseau reflects on projects for a European union; the possibilities for governmental reform for France, including the polysynody experiment; international relations; and the establishment of governments for Poland and Corsica, both recently liberated from foreign oppression. Taken together, these works offer definitive insights into Rousseau's decidedly nonutopian thoughts on cosmopolitanism and nationalism, and on the theory and practice of politics.
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Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, ... Contract, The State of War (Hackett Classics)
This substantially revised new edition of Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings features a brilliant new Introduction by David Wootton, a revision by Donald A. Cress of his own 1987 translation of Rousseau's most important political writings, and the addition of Cress' new translation of Rousseau's State of ?War. New footnotes, headnotes, and a chronology by David Wootton provide expert guidance to first-time readers of the texts.
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Emile Ou De L'Education
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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The Government of Poland
"The Government of Poland is the only finished work in which Rousseau himself dons the mantle of legislator, applying the principles of the Social Contract to the real world around him. Poland teaches us much about the mysterious art of the Social Contract's 'legislator, ' how he transforms each individual into part of a larger whole. Only in . . . Poland do we find what this crucial transformation entails and what it presupposes. But probably the greatest lesson to be learned from . . . Poland concerns Rousseau's understanding of the proper relationship between theory and practice. . . . Time and again we see Rousseau advising the Poles to do things which are in gross violation of the strict principles of political right he had elaborated in the Social Contract." --Richard Myers in Canadian Journal of Political Science
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Atlas of Elementary Botany by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Explore the natural world through Jean-Jacques Rousseau's letters on botany--a beautifully written reflection on plants, nature, and philosophy by one of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers.
Whether on his philosophical walks or his bucolic wanderings: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and composer whose works profoundly influenced the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, always portrayed a deep passion for plant collecting.
Between 1771 and 1774, he composed eight letters offering lessons in botany, addressed to Madame Delessert and destined to teach her young daughter Madelon.
These letters constitute the thinker's final work, alongside Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and reverberated throughout Europe in the early nineteenth century. Rousseau's project was much more than a simple lesson in pedagogy; it is, rather, a genuine invitation to observe plants.
Under his pen, the descriptions are elevated to the rank of art, and contemplation achieves the status of science. Liliaceous, cruciform, papilionaceous, and umbellate plants combine to compose a poetic herbarium.
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