Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Starobinski, Jean. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 464 p.
A psychological and philosophical study of Rousseau's life and works.
Criticism
Bloom, Allan. "Jean Jacques Rousseau: 1712–1778." In History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, second edition, pp. 532-53. The University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Discusses Rousseau's political and social theory, focusing on the tension between the individual within a civil society and society as a whole.
Cassirer, Ernst. The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Translated by Peter Gay. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1954, 129 p.
This noted essay attempts to make sense of contradictory interpretations of Rousseau's writings by...
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