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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Morgenstern has earned the right to present her conclusions to the scholarly world. Rousseau scholars should be encouraged to face the difficulties she elaborates.”
—Hilail Gildin,Queens College, CUNY
“While devoting close attention to the currently much discussed issues of discourse and gender, Morgenstern makes the focus of her analysis the concepts of authenticity and ambiguity. . . . It is one of the strengths of the work that the author keeps the whole of Rousseau's corpus before us. Another strength is the way she brings out the complexity of Rousseau's work, and seeks to demonstrate its ultimate, but by no means obvious, coherence. . . . Throughout this study Morgenstern demonstrates an admirable command of the secondary sources. Moreover, she has the immense virtue of doing justice to her subject.”
—Harvey Chisick International Studies in Philosophy
“In this refreshing contrast to many commentators, Morgenstern does justice to the complexity of Rousseau's work by drawing on his novels as well as his explicity political writings.”
—Choice
“This book is a well-written, innovative, in-depth investigation of the central themes of Rousseau’s thought.”
—Ethics
“Morgenstern has earned the right to present her conclusions to the scholarly world. Rousseau scholars should be encouraged to face the difficulties she elaborates.”
—Hilail Gildin,Queens College, CUNY
