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

• 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