Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies
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Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies

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Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies

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Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Abbreviations Used in Citations of Rousseau’s Work
  10. 1. Perfectible Apes in Decadent Cultures: Rousseau’s Anthropology Revisited
  11. 2. Rites of Passage and the Grand Tour: Discovering, Imagining and Inventing European Civilization in the Age of Enlightenment
  12. 3. Rousseau on Rameau and Revolution
  13. 4. Vagabond Reverie
  14. 5. The Enlightenment Hostilities of Voltaire and Rousseau
  15. 6. Rousseau’s Pufendorf: Natural Law and the Foundations of Commercial Society
  16. 7. Rousseau’s Reading of the Book of Genesis and the Theology of Commercial Society
  17. 8. The Manuscript Authority of Political Thoughts
  18. 9. Preparing the Definitive Edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau
  19. 10. Rousseau’s Two Concepts of Liberty
  20. 11. The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity
  21. 12. Rousseau and Marx
  22. 13. Ernst Cassirer’s Enlightenment: An Exchange with Bruce Mazlish
  23. 14. Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment
  24. 15. Projecting the Enlightenment
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography of the Published Work of Robert Wokler
  27. Index