The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-1762 / Edition 2

by Maurice Cranston

Overview

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.

"Luckily for us, Maurice Cranston's The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-1762 has managed to craft a highly detailed account of eight key years of Rousseau's life in such a way that we can both understand and even, on occasion, sympathize."—Olivier Bernier, Wall Street Journal

Maurice Cranston (1920-1993), a distinguished scholar and recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of John Locke, was professor of political science at the London School of Economics. His numerous books include The Romantic Movement and Philosophers and Pamphleteers, and translations of Rousseau's The Social Contract and Discourse on the Origins of Inequality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226118642
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	05/01/1999
Edition description:	1
Pages:	413
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Maurice Cranston (1920-1993) was an English academic, biographer, and intellectual historian. For many years he was a professor of political science at the London School of Economics. He was also a professor of political theory at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Cranston’s major works include biographies of John Locke, for which he received the 1957 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others. 

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Paris
2. The Hermitage
3. Sophie
4. Montlouis
5. An Even and Tranquil Life
6. At the Château
7. émile
8. Montlouis Restored
9. The Year of Julie
10. Censorship
11. Two Social Contracts
12. Banishment
List of Principal Abbreviations Used in the Notes
Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

What Cranston has done is not so much to set the record straight as to tell us what the record is.
—Times Literary Supplement

Hampson

Cranston not only recreates for his readers a rounded view of Rousseau himself, he sets it firmly in the social and political context of Europe's ancien régime. The result is an engrossing work of history.
—New Statesman

Gray