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In this study of Rousseau's life and works, across a range of disciplines, Robert Wokler shows how his thinking and writing were all inspired by an ideal of mankind's self-realization in a condition of unfettered freedom.Tags
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Robert Wokler (1942-2006) was at the time of his death Senior Lecturer in Political Science and in the Directed Studies program at Yale University. He was formerly Reader in the History of Political Thought at the University of Manchester. He was the author of Rousseau on Society, Politics, Music and Language and Rousseau: A Very Short show more Introduction. He was also the editor or coeditor of many books, including The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, Diderot: Political Writings, The Enlightenment and Modernity and Inventing Human Science. show less
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- Canonical title
- Rousseau
- Alternate titles
- Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction
- Original publication date
- 2001
- First words
- Together with Montesquieu, Hume, Smith, and Kant among his contemporaries, Rousseau has exerted the most profound influence on modern European intellectual history, perhaps even surpassing anyone else of his day.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)From both introspection and good grace, the most formidable eighteenth-century critic of the trappings of civilization, and the most vivid illustrator of the textures of its despair and discontent, believed all his life, no less than did Anne Frank at the darkest moment of modern history, that human nature was still fundamentally good at heart.
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- Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 848.509 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings 18th century 1715–89
- LCC
- PQ2053 .W64 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 18th century
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