The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-1762 - Softcover

Cranston, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226118649 ISBN 13: 9780226118642

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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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. 

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226118649
• ISBN 13: 9780226118642
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 413