Commentary

• Men and Citizens: A Study of Rousseau’s Social Theory

  - Judith Shklar, Men and Citizens: A Study of Rousseau's Social Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
  From the publisher: This book, first published in 1969, is widely regarded as one of the best studies of Rousseau’s thought in any language. In it, Professor Shklar examines Rousseau’s central concern: given that modern civilisation is intolerable… More

• A Rousseau Dictionary

  - N.J.H. Dent, A Rousseau Dictionary (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
  From the publisher: The social, educational and political writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau have become enormously influential in the 200 years since his death. But the breadth as well as the depth of Rousseau’s achievement – he was amongst other… More

• Making Citizens: Rousseau’s Political Theory of Culture

  - Zev M. Trachtenberg, Making Citizens: Rousseau’s Political Theory of Culture (London: Routledge: 1993).
  From the publisher: By analysing Rousseau’s conception of the general will, Zev Trachtenberg characterises the attitude of civic virtue Rousseau believes individuals must have to cooperate successfully in society. Rousseau holds that culture affects… More

• Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question

  - Richard L. Velkley, Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
  From the publisher: In Being after Rousseau, Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture—a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this… More