Commentary
How to Read Rousseau’s ‘The Government of Poland’
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Government of Poland, translated by Willmoore Kendall (Hackett: Indianapolis, 1985).Excerpt: “Jean-Jacques,” writes Rousseau in his Rousseau Passes Judgment on Jean-Jacques (the last and most bitter of his writings about himself), devoted six months…first to studying the constitution of an unhappy nation (i.e. Poland), then to… More