Clean pages, with no owners' marks; the cover shows heavy wear along the top rear, with an abrasion that sheared a millimeter of the edge and tops of the preceding 20 leaves; there are small bumps at the spine ends, two short creases at the left rear, short curls and edge chips at the right front corners, and some chipping around the spine heel, otherwise sound. xxxviii, 421pp. incl. index.

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Title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0226771288
ISBN 13: 9780226771281
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair

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Jean Starobinski, one of Europe's foremost literary critics, examines the life that led Rousseau, who so passionately sought open, transparent communication with others, to accept and even foster obstacles that permitted him to withdraw into himself. First published in France in 1958, Jean-Jacques Rousseau remains Starobinski's most important achievement and, arguably, the most comprehensive book ever written on Rousseau. The text has been extensively revised for this edition and is published here along with seven essays on Rousseau that appeared between 1962 and 1970.

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Jean Starobinski is professor emeritus at the University of Geneva. His book Montaigne in Motion, also translated by Arthur Goldhammer, is published by the University of Chicago Press.

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