The Essential Writings of Rousseau (Modern Library Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (PDF)

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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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⭐I have read Damrosch’s Restless Genius with great enjoyment, and, also with great enjoyment, the subject’s Confessions (in French). I would like to point out what seems to be a chronological mix-up in Damrosch’s introduction to this anthology. He touches on some key events in this order1, – Rousseau converts to Catholicism to benefit from the subsidies given by the Church to “returners” from Protestantism2, – He spends a year in Turin working as a humble servant in a noble family3, – He returns – to Annecy, near Geneva – where he is seduced by the beautiful Mme de Warrens, also a Church-supported “returner” from heresyIn fact, the proper order is – 1, Rousseau flees his family home in Geneva and winds up in nearby Annecy, hoping to solve his financial problems by becoming a Catholic, under the charge of of Mme de Warrens, a professional “convert recruiter” for the Church – 2, Warrens arranges for him to be indoctrinated into the Catholic faith by sending him to a catechism school for religious heretics in Turin, then capital of the state of Savoy – 3, after a horrific year in the “catuchemene” institution, desperate young Rousseau finds work in Turin as a valet until he can return home.I think that all this should be put right, not only for the pedantic sake of historical accuracy, but because these years mark the highly “romantic” beginning of the saga of Rousseau’s wandering life. Otherwise, I find Damrosch’s writings about Rousseau as close as anyone can get to perfect, with for subject such an ambiguous, contradictory and downright confusing character!Lawrence Bohme, author, translator and interpreter living in Nice, France

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