Politics and the Arts - Letter to M.d'Alembert on the Theatre

This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing some of the most sensitive literary criticism ever written (especially of Moliere), the book is an excellent introduction to the principles of classical political thought. It demonstrates the paradoxes of Rousseau's thought and clearly displays the temperament that led him to repudiate the hopes of the Enlightenment.

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• Authors: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques/ Bloom Rousseau
• Assisted by: Allan Bloom (Translation), Jean Jacques Rousseau (Translation), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Translation)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.12.1968
• EAN: 9780801490712
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-9071-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 205 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Agora Editions; Agora Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous