Os textos aqui reunidos sob o título de Escritos sobre a política e as artes compõem o que poderíamos chamar de um mosaico político-literário. Neles se delineiam as principais teorias políticas de Rousseau, formuladas de tal maneira que se entrelaçam entre o ato da elaboração conceitual e a necessidade da escrita – com todas as suas seduções e perigos. Pois, para Rousseau, a filosofia política, longe de ser uma disciplina acadêmica à parte, é, em boa medida, indissociável de uma teoria da linguagem e da expressão artística, sem as quais, em seu entender, nenhuma reflexão sobre o presente poderia ser levada a sério. Malgrado os diferentes registros e proveniências dessas peças, e apesar das variações de estilo e de tom que se encontram entre elas e às vezes dentro delas, fala sempre a mesma voz. Agitado, irrequieto, indignado, Rousseau consegue se exprimir percorrendo uma variada gama de sentimentos, adotando, para tanto, metáforas, tropos, comparações e outros recursos de deslocamento que mantém vivo o interesse do leitor; independentemente do assunto, cada um dos textos, tem, além disso, a sua história.
The three works collected in The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau represent an important contribution to eighteenth-century political theory that has exerted an extensive influence on generations of thinkers, beginning with ...
The Essential Rousseau
Beginning with an overview of Rousseau's life & works, Dent assesses the central ideas & arguments of Rousseau's philosophy, including the corruption of modern civilization, the state of nature, his theories of amour de soi & amour propre, ...
Rousseau's complete work, unified in English for the first time, premiers with an original translation of his Dialogues
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Swiss philospher and musician who contributed to the Enlightenment.
The entirety of the first three books of that masterpiece along with the complete Social Contract are included in this indispensable volume.
Du Pan urged Rousseau to call on his fellow Syndic , Pierre Mussard , ' who would not be displeased to know you ' . This was the successful diplomat whose inauguration as a Syndic Rousseau had attended in July , and according to Du Pan ...
In this second volume of the unparalleled exposition of Rousseau's life and works, Cranston completes and corrects the story told in Rousseau's Confessions, and offers a vivid, entirely new history of his most eventful and productive years.
Rousseau's opposition to inequality and emphasis on individual worth constituted a major contribution to progressive social and political thought.
At length , seeing my mind made up , he placed it with M. Dalibard , who had once been tutor to young Chenonceaux and who was well known in botanical circles for his Flora parisiensis . 1 In spite of the austerity of my sumptuary reform ...