Commentary

• From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society

  - Colletti, Lucio. From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
  From the Publisher: “This collection of Colletti’s (1924-2001) principal Marxist essays will be welcomed by non-Italian readers. Colletti’s concern as a Marxist was twofold: to interpret Marxism as profoundly and as flexibly as possible; and… More

• The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

  - Yack, Bernard. The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
  From the Publisher: “Bernard Yack seeks to identify and account for the development of a form of discontent held in common by a large number of European philosophers and social critics, including Rousseau, Schiller, the young Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche.… More

• The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, Communism

  - Levine, Andrew. The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, Communism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  From the Publisher: “This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx’s notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area, Levine applies the tools and techniques of… More