Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (First Discourse) and Polemics

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Judith R. Bush (Translator), Roger D. Masters (Translator), Christopher Kelly (Translator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874515800
Publisher:	Dartmouth College Press
Publication date:	08/01/1992
Series:	Collected Writings of Rousseau Series , #2
Edition description:	Trans. from the French
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a leading Genevan philosopher and political theorist and one of the key figures of the Enlightenment.


Christopher Kelly is a professor of political science at Boston College. He is the author of Rousseau’s Exemplary Life and coeditor of The Collected Writings of Rousseau.

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Thomas L. Pangle

"Kelly and Masters are among the leading Rousseau scholars in the world today, and it comes as no surprise to find that the second volume of their masterful English edition of Rousseau's works puts us once again deeply in their debt."
— Thomas L. Pangle, University of Toronto