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Book SynopsisRobert 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 a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought.
Trade Review"[A] volume, introduced by Christopher Brooke, that all Rousseau students need."--Christopher Bertram, Times Literary Supplement "[T]his collection of essays is a valuable contribution not only to Rousseau studies and Enlightenment studies alike, but also (and perhaps more importantly) to the ongoing debate on how to do intellectual history and how to address the normative or political use of history by present thinkers."--Brian Kjaer Olesen, European Review of History "[T]his is a welcome collection for those interested in Rousseau and his impact."--Michael Lynn, Historian "Garsten is to be applauded for collecting in one volume important essays by one of the most eloquent defenders of Rousseau and the Enlightenment in recent times."--Simon Kow, Philosophy in Review
Table of ContentsForeword: Bryan Garsten vii Introduction: Christopher Brooke ix Acknowledgements xv Abbreviations Used in Citations of Rousseau's Work xvii Chapter 1. Perfectible Apes in Decadent Cultures: Rousseau's Anthropology Revisited 1 Chapter 2. Rites of Passage and the Grand Tour: Discovering, Imagining and Inventing European Civilization in the Age of Enlightenment 29 Chapter 3. Rousseau on Rameau and Revolution 46 Chapter 4. Vagabond Reverie 68 Chapter 5. The Enlightenment Hostilities of Voltaire and Rousseau 80 Chapter 6. Rousseau's Pufendorf: Natural Law and the Foundations of Commercial Society 88 Chapter 7. Rousseau's Reading of the Book of Genesis and the Theology of Commercial Society 113 Chapter 8. The Manuscript Authority of Political Thoughts 121 Chapter 9. Preparing the Definitive Edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau 136 Chapter 10. Rousseau's Two Concepts of Liberty 154 Chapter 11. The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity 185 Chapter 12. Rousseau and Marx 214 Chapter 13. Ernst Cassirer's Enlightenment: An Exchange with Bruce Mazlish 233 Chapter 14. Isaiah Berlin's Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment 244 Chapter 15. Projecting the Enlightenment 260 Notes 279 Bibliography of the Published Work of Robert Wokler 363 Index 375
