Tag: Theater

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  • Letter to d’Alembert on the Theatre

    - Recommended translation: Politics and the ArtsLetter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre (Agora Paperback Edition)trans. by Alan Bloom (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968) [First published by Agora Editions, 1960].
    In October of 1758, Rousseau published the Letter to d’Alembert to refute Jean d’Alembert’s suggestion that Geneva establish a public theater. Rousseau’s essay critiqued the immorality of the Parisian theater and argued that a… More