/ Edited by Christie McDonald and Stanley Hoffmann
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Cambridge, UK ;New York
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: Cambridge University Press
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, 2010.
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xiii, 312 p.
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Introduction / Christie McDonald -- Freeing man from sin : Rousseau on the natural condition of mankind / Ioannis D. Evrigenis -- Making history natural in Rousseau's Discourse on the origins of inequality / Natasha Lee -- Rousseau's Second discourse : between Epicureanism and Stoicism / Christopher Brooke -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Diderot in the late 1740s : satire, friendship, and freedom / Marian Hobson -- If you please! Theater, verisimilitude, and freedom in the Letter to d'Alembert / Jaeraome Brillaud -- Music, the passions, and political freedom in Rousseau / Tracy B. Strong -- The social contract, or the mirage of the general will / Stanley Hoffmann -- 'Par le bon usage de ma libertae' : freedom and Rousseau's reconstituted Christianity / Jason Neidleman -- The constraints of liberty at the scene of instruction / Diane Berrett Brown -- 'Toutes mes idaees sont en images' : Rousseau and the yoke of necessity / Marius Hentea -- Rousseau's ruins / Louisa Shea -- Can woman be free? / Philip Stewart -- The subject and its body : love of oneself and freedom in the thought of Rousseau / Mathieu Brunet and Bertrand Guillarme -- Paranoia and freedom in Rousseau's final decade / Leo Damrosch -- Freedom and the project of idleness / Pierre Saint-Amand -- On the uses of negative freedom / Marie-Haelaene Huet -- Fail better : Rousseau's creative daelire / Christie McDonald -- Postface / Stanley Hoffmann. "Debates about freedom, an ideal continually contested, were first set out in their modern version by the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His ideas and analyses were taken up during the philosophical enlightenment, often invoked during the French Revolution, and still resonate in contemporary discussions of freedom. This volume examines Rousseau's many approaches to the concept of freedom, in the context of his thought on literature, religion, music, theater, women, the body, and the arts. Its expert contributors cross disciplinary frontiers to develop thought-provoking new angles on Rousseau's thought. By taking freedom as the guiding principle of their analysis, the essays form a cohesive account of Rousseau's writings"--Provided by publisher.
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Criticism and interpretation