An essential general reader and course adoption anthology
The pioneering collection Rousseau on Philosophy, Morality, and Religion brings together Rousseau’s key published and unpublished (in English translation), writings on philosophy, morality, and religion. This comprehensive, tightly constructed anthology can easily stand alone or serve as an exceptional companion to Rousseau’s First and Second Discourses and Social Contract. Readers will find herein the definitive translation of the key Essay on the Origin of Languages, rarer works such as the Four Letters to M. the Président de Malesherbes—containing one of Rousseau’s most important statements about his thought and its origin and development—and much more. Less well-known, less accessible, and frequently overlooked, these brilliant shorter pieces in many ways encapsulate Rousseau’s thought more directly or more simply than do his longer works. Editor Chris Kelly’s incisive preface and introduction neatly contextualize the eleven primary selections, and a Rousseau chronology and bibliography round out the collection.
"The works collected here are indispensable for understanding Rousseau's views on morality, religion, philosophy and their relation to one another. Christopher Kelly's thought-provoking introduction deftly identifies unifying threads among the disparate pieces. In brief, this new collection is a treasure."—Ruth W. Grant, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Duke University
"This intelligently edited collection brings together, in the first accurate translations ever made, key shorter works of Rousseau that have been hitherto largely neglected in Anglo-American scholarship, and are essential for comprehending the systematic character of his philosophy."
—Thomas L. Pangle, Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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CHRISTOPHER KELLY is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and editor and primary translator of Dartmouth College Press’s acclaimed Collected Writings of Rousseau. He is the author of Rousseau’s Exemplary Life (1987) and Rousseau as Author (2003).
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