Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: writings, rousseau, collected, theater, letter, alembert
Number of Pages: 443
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1584653531
ISBN-13: 9781584653530
In 1758, Jean Le Rond d’Alembert proposed the public establishment of a theater in Geneva--and Jean-Jacques Rousseau vigorously objected. Their exchange, collected in volume ten of this acclaimed series, offers a classic debate over the political importance of the arts. As these two leading figures of the Enlightenment argue about censorship, popular versus high culture, and the proper role of women in society, their dispute signals a declaration of war that divided the Enlightenment into contending factions. These two thinkers confront the contentious issues surrounding public support f
Authors:Jean Rousseau, Christopher Kelly,
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: writings, collected, rousseau, literary, moral, scientific, religious, autobiographical
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1584655992
ISBN-13: 9781584655992
Newcomers to Rousseau’s works and those who are familiar with his writings will find something to surprise them both in this wide variety of short pieces from every period of his life. Among the important theoretical writings found here are the "Fiction or Allegorical Fragment on Revelation" and the "Moral Letters," which are among Rousseau’s clearest statements about the nature and limits of philosophic reasoning. In the early "Idea of a Method for the Composition of a Book," Rousseau lays out in advance his understanding of how to present his ideas to the public. He ponders the p
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: writings, history, politics, collected, rousseau, poland, perpetual, peace, government, plan
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2005-10-14
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1584655143
ISBN-13: 9781584655145
The Collected Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Volume 11.
Authors:Jean Jacques Rousseau, John T. Scott,
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: writings, collected, rousseau, music, related, languages, essay, origin
Number of Pages: 658
Published: 2009-08-28
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1584658002
ISBN-13: 9781584658009
"J.J. was born for music," Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote of himself, "not to be consumed in its execution, but to speed its progress and make discoveries about it. His ideas on the art and about the art are fertile, inexhaustible." Rousseau was a practicing musician and theorist for years before publication of his first Discourse, but until now scholars have neglected these ideas. This graceful translation remedies both those failings by bringing together the Essay, which John T. Scott says "most clearly displays the juncture between Rousseau’s musical theory and his major philosophical wo
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: psychology, writings, philosophy, last, vol, outer, inner, volume
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1994-01-13
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0631189564
ISBN-13: 9780631189565
In the last years of his life, from 1949 to 1951, Wittgenstein’s writings focused upon knowledge and certainty (collected together in On Certainty), upon colour concepts (in Remarks on Colour) and upon the relation between the "inner" and "outer", that is, between so-called mental states and bodily behavior. His writings on this third theme, now available in paperback, are gathered here for the first time. Wittgenstein’s last weeks were a period of high creativity during which his thoughts were on a level with the best he ever produced. His variation on the classic philosophical th
Authors:James P. Allen, Peter Der Manuelian,
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: ancient, world, writings, biblical, literature, society, egyptian, pyramid, texts
Number of Pages: 481
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 9004137777
ISBN-13: 9789004137776
The Pyramid Texts are the oldest body of extant literature from ancient Egypt. First carved on the walls of the burial chambers in the pyramids of kings and queens of the Old Kingdom, they provide the earliest comprehensive view of the way in which the ancient Egyptians understood the structure of the universe, the role of the gods, and the fate of human beings after death. Their importance lies in their antiquity and in their endurance throughout the entire intellectual history of ancient Egypt. This volume contains the complete translation of the Pyramid Texts, including new texts recently d
Author: James Madison
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: writings, america, library, james, madison
Number of Pages: 966
Published: 1999-08-30
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1883011663
ISBN-13: 9781883011666
America’s greatest political thinker, in the most comprehensive one-volume collection ever publishedOver 200 years after the founding of the federal republic, James Madison remains the most important political thinker in American history. The prime framer of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Madison was also a brilliant expositor of the new republican government and its underlying principles. His eloquent and insightful writing on freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the press, the rights of minorities under majority rule, the role of the states in the federal system, and t
