Rousseau after 200 Years: Proceedings of the Cambridge Bicentennial Colloquium

This volume contains the proceedings of a 1978 colloquium held in Trinity College, Cambridge, to commemorate the bicentenary of Rousseau's death.

R. A. Leigh (Author)

9780521154703, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 2010

316 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.47 kg

J.-J. Rousseau is the most original, most profound and most controversial of all the great eighteenth-century writers. The problems he raised have since become even more acute and the search for a solution increasingly desirable. His voice was a dissonant one in an age which found satisfaction in material progress, correlates the well-being of humanity with the advancement of knowledge, and displayed a form of complacency which Rousseau sets out to shatter. His message falls uneasily on the ears of the acquisitive society. This volume contains the proceedings of a colloquium held in 1978 in Trinity College, Cambridge, to commemorate the bicentenary of Rousseau's death. It contains the complete text of the fourteen papers given before an invited audience by leading specialists, covering politics, sociology, language, literature and music. It also contains a slightly abridged version of the discussions to which these papers gave rise.

Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
List of principal abbreviations
Part I. Politics and Sociology: 1. Rousseau and Kant: principles of political right Stephen Ellenburg
2. Deux Contrats sociaux: Hume et Rousseau Jacques Voisine
3. La Place et l'importance de la notion d'égalité dans la doctrine politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau Robert Derathé
4. Rousseau et Marx Jean-Louis Lecercle
5. La Cité et ses langages Bronislaw Baczko
6. From the orang-utan to the vampire: towards an anthropology of Rousseau Christopher Frayling and Robert Wokler
Part II. Language, Literature, Music: 7. The idea of love in La Noivelle Héloïse
8. L'Héritage littéraire de Rousseau Bernard Gagnebin
9. Rousseau et l'éloquence Jean Starobinski
10. Rousseau écrivain Michel Launay
11. Rousseau and his reader: the technique of persuasion in éMILE RONALD gRIMSLEY
12. rOUSSEAU ET LA MORALE DU SENTIMENT (LEXICOLOGIE, IDéOLOGIE) John Stephenson Spink
13. Les fonctions de l'imagination dans éMILE Marc Eigeldinger
14. Modernité du discours de Jean-Jacques Rousseau sur la musique Marie-élisabeth Duchez
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]