Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: agora, paperback, editions, theatre, alembert, arts, letter, politics
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1968-06
List price: $15.50
ISBN-10: 0801490715
ISBN-13: 9780801490712

This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing some of the most sensitive literary criticism ever written (especially of Molière), the book is an excellent introduction to the principles of classical political thought. It demonstrates the paradoxes of Rousseau’s though and clearly displays the temperament that led him to repudiate the hopes of the Enlightenment.

Author: HANKINS
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: science, history, philosophy, classics, enlightenment, alembert, jean
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 2881243991
ISBN-13: 9782881243998

This book examines the origins of d’Alembert’s philosophical ideas, and shows how abstract concepts such as force and mass were clarified and assimilated into the structure of classical mechanics. But more than this, the book is a study of the relations between science and philosophy during the Enlightenment, as reflected in the life and work of Jean d’Alembert, one of that period’s most prominent spokesmen. By showing the interactions of one philosophe with the scientific, social and philosophical communities of the eighteenth century, Professor Hankins reveals how Enl

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: writings, rousseau, collected, theater, letter, alembert
Number of Pages: 443
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1584653531
ISBN-13: 9781584653530

In 1758, Jean Le Rond d’Alembert proposed the public establishment of a theater in Geneva--and Jean-Jacques Rousseau vigorously objected. Their exchange, collected in volume ten of this acclaimed series, offers a classic debate over the political importance of the arts. As these two leading figures of the Enlightenment argue about censorship, popular versus high culture, and the proper role of women in society, their dispute signals a declaration of war that divided the Enlightenment into contending factions. These two thinkers confront the contentious issues surrounding public support f