Letters from Rousseau (Hardcover)

Eve Grace

ISBN 10: 1501781936 / ISBN 13: 9781501781933

Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2025

About this Item

Hardcover. Letters from Rousseau is the first extensive collection of translations of Rousseau's correspondence into English in more than eighty years. Many of the letters have not been translated before, while others address substantive issues in his thought and complement his published writings. Although these letters went through the post as ordinary letters, once Rousseau became famous, he knew that they might be opened by the police and that they were very likely to be circulated and even published. Indeed, he wrote some of them with a view to their ultimate publication. Rousseau's enormous "private" correspondence extends into all periods of his life, including intimate letters to friends, letters to famous individuals, and responses to readers who posed philosophic questions to him. Thus, Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly also share his responses to readers who had been moved by his books. Further, this volume includes letters written to or about major intellectual figures, such as Diderot, Voltaire, Hume, and Mirabeau. "Selected letters from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the central figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, to a variety of correspondents both private and famous. The selection emphasizes moral, political, and philosophical topics, as well as important events in Rousseau's life"-- Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters from Rousseau (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501781936
• ISBN 13: 9781501781933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Letters from Rousseau is the first extensive collection of translations of Rousseau's correspondence into English in more than eighty years. Many of the letters have not been translated before, while others address substantive issues in his thought and complement his published writings. Although these letters went through the post as ordinary letters, once Rousseau became famous, he knew that they might be opened by the police and that they were very likely to be circulated and even published. Indeed, he wrote some of them with a view to their ultimate publication.

Rousseau's enormous "private" correspondence extends into all periods of his life, including intimate letters to friends, letters to famous individuals, and responses to readers who posed philosophic questions to him. Thus, Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly also share his responses to readers who had been moved by his books. Further, this volume includes letters written to or about major intellectual figures, such as Diderot, Voltaire, Hume, and Mirabeau.

About the Author

Eve Grace teaches at Colorado College. She is author of several articles and chapters on Rousseau's thought, and coeditor of Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family, The Challenge of Rousseau, and The Rousseauian Mind.

Christopher Kelly is Professor Emeritus at Boston College. He is author of Rousseau as Author and Rousseau's Exemplary Life, and coeditor of the Collected Writings of Rousseau.