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La notoriedad alcanzada por el "Dictionnaire de musique" de Sébastien de Brossard se vio coronada por la publicación en 1768 del "Dictionnaire de musique" de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, texto nacido con vocación de contribuir al conocimiento de la terminología predominante en la práctica musical francesa del momento. Sin embargo, el contenido teórico-técnico se destaca controvertible sobre un escenario netamente iluminado por una erudición domesticada con vistas al bien común.El silencio acaecido tras la pionera traducción del "Diccionario" al inglés (William Waring, 1771), la exigua aportación al alemán de Dorothea y Peter Gülke (1984), y la escasez testimonial del "Essay" de John T. Scott (1998), concluye en nuestro país con la primera edición en castellano, realizada por José Luis de la Fuente Charfolé, que, tras un riguroso estudio introductorio en el que expone el estado actual de las investigaciones, aportaciones y sucesos de mayor relevancia acaecidos sobre el texto, evidencia la

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El Proyecto y las Consideraciones son, pues, junto a las Cartas escritas desde la montaña, el campo de aplicación de los principios políticos establecidos en El contrato social, pero son también algo más: son -y especialmente las Consideraciones, a las que en lo sucesivo dirigiremos preferentemente nuestra atención- el lugar donde aquellos principios se amplían, e incluso donde algunos se ven desnaturalizados en cierta medida, dando cabida a una nueva materia política desconocida en el libro teórico. Exponer la naturaleza de tales modificaciones, y valorar a la luz de los nuevos elementos la contribución de la doctrina roussoniana a la teoría democrática del Estado, constituye el objeto principal del presente estudio . Al que añadiremos un epílogo sobre una reflexión acerca de una cuestión prioritaria en el pensamiento roussoniano: la del papel desempeñado por la ética en la política.

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Resultado de la filosofía ilustrada dieciochesca, El contrato social es un tratado político que rechaza el modelo absolutista y cree de plano en la libertad del ciudadano para crear la sociedad perfecta, basada en una democracia radical libre de las ataduras de cualquier poder, incluido el religioso. Su texto ha influenciado a pensadores, políticos y gobernantes y ha encontrado detractores y defensores por igual, convirtiéndose en una eterna polémica.

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Ideas que han cambiado el mundo.   A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido.   Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos.   Este explosivo llamamiento de Rousseau a favor de la libertad humana contribuyó a encender la mecha de la Revolución Francesa y ha avivado desde entonces cualquier debate sobre cómo deberíamos gobernarnos los unos a los otros, siendo considerado tanto un modelo para el terror político como una declaración fundamental de la democracia.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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Expongo solamente las razones por las cuales los pueblos modernos, que se creen libres, tienen representantes y por qué los pueblos antiguos no los tenían. De cualquier modo, en el instante en que un pueblo nombra representantes, ya no es libre, ya no existe. El contrato social es la gran obra política de Rousseau. En ella, a pesar de su reducida extensión, se encuentran expuestos los principios de su ideal político. Independientemente del significado que tuviera para el ginebrino, el escrito adquirió vida por sí mismo, y ha desempeñado un papel crucial en el pensamiento político occidental de los últimos doscientos años. De Biblia de los revolucionarios de 1789 a libro de cabecera de Fidel Castro, ha sido considerado como la plasmación por excelencia de la teoría democrática. Fue, sin embargo, el libro menos leído de Jean-Jacques hasta la Revolución francesa. Prohibido en Francia, y condenado a ser quemado en Ginebra por temerario, escandaloso, impío y destructor de todos los gobierno

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"Julia o la Nueva Eloísa?, obra epistolar publicada en 1760 que gozó de un enorme éxito en su época, nos sumerge en un análisis profundo de los sentimientos humanos: la pasión amorosa y el amor filial, el deber, el honor y la virtud, la amistad, la lealtad en el matrimonio...Pero, a pesar de un romanticismo incipiente, Rousseau no deja de ser el filósofo de la Ilustración, de tal manera que, además de relatar una historia de amor, podemos hacer un completo recorrido tanto por su pensamiento como por los usos y costumbres del siglo XVIII: las Artes, las Letras, la política, la educación de los hijos, pero también la moda en el vestir, la cocina, el trabajo del campo, y hasta el paisajismo y los jardines.

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Estas Confesiones van más allá de unas simples memorias al convertir Rousseau al lector en juez de los hechos de su vida. Expone su testimonio sobre los elementos biográficos de un hombre que quiere desnudar su alma y su existencia hasta tal punto que está seguro de que no tendrá nunca imitadores. Empleando como trama la lucha que sostuvo contra el destino, al aceptar las acusaciones vertidas contra su ser por considerarlas otras tantas virtudes que habían de conducirle a la gloria y volverse contra sus acusadores. Sus Confesiones constituyen un vívido retrato de una sociedad que no solo abrumó al niño inocente de la primera parte, sino que siguió haciendo lo propio con el hombre maduro de la segunda. Un hombre que fue perseguido de forma infatigable por todos, incluidos sus propios amigos de juventud, como Diderot, Grimm o Voltaire, que no ahorraron encarnizamientos contra su persona.

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In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) presents concepts that had a significant influence on the development of pedagogy in the eighteenth century, 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 at the time, Emile is a utopian vision of child-centered education, full of the sentiments of Romanticism, a movement that Rousseau 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. As in so many of his other famous works, here, too, Rousseau asserts his main thesis that human beings are by nature good; it is only the distorting influences of civilization that have corrupted them.

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"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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'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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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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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 Émile. 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.

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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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'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.'In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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"In the 200 years since its publication in 1762, Rousseau's Émile has been the subject of endless controversy. The work was ordered burned in Paris and Geneva within weeks of its appearance; yet it was read passionately throughout Europe. Goethe called it 'the teacher's gospel,' while Kant maintained that no book had ever moved him so deeply. . . . Within this context it is well, perhaps to note a judgment Professor Boyd himself rendered a half-century ago at the beginning of a long and distinguished career in the field of education. 'I believe . . . that the Émile with all its faults is the most profound modern discussion of the fundamentals of education, the only modern work of the kind worthy to be put alongside the Republic of Plato.' . . . I know of no better definition of a classic."—From the Foreword by Lawrence A. Cremin

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'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 debate since its 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.Translated and Introduced by Maurice Cranston

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This 4-volumes set constitutes the proceedings of the ICPR 2022 Workshops of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2022, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 2023. The 167 full papers presented in these 4 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. ICPR workshops covered domains related to pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, computer vision, image and sound analysis. Workshops’ contributions reflected the most recent applications related to healthcare, biometrics, ethics, multimodality, cultural heritage, imagery, affective computing, etc.

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After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the manner in which he has come to terms with his alienation, as he walks around Paris, gazing at plants, day-dreaming and finding comfort in the virtues of solitude and the natural world. Meditative, amusing and lyrical, this is a fascinating exploration of Rousseau's thought as he looks back over his life, searching to justify his actions, to defend himself against his critics and to elaborate upon his philosophy.

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