Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and their legacies /
Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations Used in Citations of Rousseau's Work; 1. Perfectible Apes in Decadent Cultures: Rousseau's Anthropology Revisited; 2. Rites of Passage and the Grand Tour: Discovering, Imagining and Inventing European Civilization in the Age of Enlightenment; 3. Rousseau on Rameau and Revolution; 4. Vagabond Reverie; 5. The Enlightenment Hostilities of Voltaire and Rousseau; 6. Rousseau's Pufendorf: Natural Law and the Foundations of Commercial Society; 7. Rousseau's Reading of the Book of Genesis and the Theology of Commercial Society.
- 8. The Manuscript Authority of Political Thoughts9. Preparing the Definitive Edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau; 10. Rousseau's Two Concepts of Liberty; 11. The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity; 12. Rousseau and Marx; 13. Ernst Cassirer's Enlightenment: An Exchange with Bruce Mazlish; 14. Isaiah Berlin's Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment; 15. Projecting the Enlightenment; Notes; Bibliography of the Published Work of Robert Wokler; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.