Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (First Discourse) and Polemics (Collected Writings of Rousseau)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

ISBN 10: 0874515807 / ISBN 13: 9780874515800

Editore: Dartmouth College Press, 1992

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• Titolo: Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (First Discourse) and Polemics (Collected Writings of Rousseau)
• Editore: Dartmouth College Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0874515807
• ISBN 13: 9780874515800
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Contains the entire First Discourse, contemporary attacks on it, Rousseau’s replies to his critics, and his summary of the debate in his preface to Narcissus. A number of these texts have never before been available in English. The First Discourse and Polemics demonstrate the continued relevance of Rousseau’s thought. Whereas his critics argue for correction of the excesses and corruptions of knowledge and the sciences as sufficient, Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge.

Informazioni sull?autore

CHRISTOPHER KELLY is professor of political science at Boston College, translator of several other volumes in this series, and author of Rousseau’s Exemplary Life and Rousseau as Author.