Other Works

• Letter from J.J. Rousseau to M. de Voltaire

  - Recommended translation: “Letter from J.J. Rousseau to M. de Voltaire,’ in Rousseau: The Discourses and other early political writings, ed. and trans. by Victor Gourevitch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 232-246.    
  Rousseau’s “Letter to Voltaire,” originally published in 1756. Rousseau to Voltaire, 18 August 1756, from J.A. Leigh, ed., Correspondence complète de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, vol. 4 (Geneva, 1967), pp. 37-50; translated by R. Spang.  … More

Commentary

• “Rousseau” in Protestant Thought

  - [Essay] Karl Barth, “Rousseau”, Chapter II of Karl Barth, Protestant Thought: from Rousseau to Ritschl (Translated by Brian Cozens from eleven chapters of Die Protestantische Theologie im 19. Jahrhundert) Harper & Brothers: New York, 1959, p 58-117
  Excerpt: With Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in the middle of the eighteenth century,  the new age begins which we call the age of Goethe, the age which  presented Protestant theology after Schleiermacher with the problem  with which it chose to concern itself,… More

• Rousseau’s Exemplary Life

  - Christopher Kelly,Rousseau’s Exemplary Life: The Confessions as Political Philosophy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987).
  From the publisher: For Rousseau, “consecrating one’s life to the truth” (his personal credo) meant publicly taking responsibility for what one publishes and only publishing what would be of public benefit. Christopher Kelly argues that this… More

• The Autocritique of Enlightenment: Rousseau and the Philosophes

  - Mark Hulliung, The Autocritique of Enlightenment: Rousseau and the Philosophes (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994).
  From the publisher: This text provides an analysis of the life and works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an area often overlooked in accounts of 18th-century heritage. Mark Hulliung restores Rousseau to his historical context, the world of the philosophes, and… More

• Rousseau, Critic of Liberalism by Pierre Manent

  - Pierre Manent, “Rousseau, Critic of Liberalism” in An Intellectual History of Liberalism, translated by Rebecca Balinski (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
  From the publisher: Highlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. For Manent, a discussion of liberalism encompasses the foundations of… More

• Rousseau on Providence

  - Victor Gourevitch, “Rousseau on Providence,” The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 53, No. 3, March 2000.
  Excerpt: Kant held that Rousseau and Newton had revealed the ways of  Providence: “After Newton and Rousseau, God is justified, and Pope’s  thesis is henceforth true.”  Rousseau discussed Providence and Pope’s thesis that… More

• The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau

  - The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau, Edited by Patrick Riley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
  From the publisher: Rousseau, the great political theorist and philosopher of education, was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This is the only volume that… More

• Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

  - Robert Wokler, Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2001).
  From the publisher: In this study of Rousseau’s life and works, Robert Wolker shows how his philosophy of history, his theories of music and politics, his fiction, educational, and religious writings, and even his botany, were all inspired by… More

• Rousseau’s Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes

  - Graeme Garrard, Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A RepublicanCritique of the Philosophes (New York: State University of New York Press, 2003).
  From the publisher: Arguing that the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s relationship to the Enlightenment has been eclipsed and seriously distorted by his association with the French Revolution, Graeme Garrard presents the first book-length case that… More

• Rousseau and l’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment

  - John T. Scott and Ourida Mostefai (editors), Rousseau and l'Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment (Amsterdam: Rodolphi Press, 2008).
  From the publisher: Ecrasez l’infâme! Voltaire’s rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition, prejudice, and intolerance advocated… More