Rousseau after 200 Years Proceedings of the Cambridge Bicentennial Colloquium [Paperback]

This volume contains the proceedings of a 1978 colloquium held in Trinity College, Cambridge, to commemorate the bicentenary of Rousseau's death.This volume contains the proceedings of a colloquium held in 1978 in Trinity College, Cambridge, to commemorate the bicentenary of Rousseaus death. It contains the complete text of the fourteen papers given before an invited audience by leading specialists.This volume contains the proceedings of a colloquium held in 1978 in Trinity College, Cambridge, to commemorate the bicentenary of Rousseaus death. It contains the complete text of the fourteen papers given before an invited audience by leading specialists.J.-J. Rousseau is the most original, most profound and most controversial of all the great eighteenth-century writers. The problems he raised have since become even more acute and the search for a solution increasingly desirable. His voice was a dissonant one in an age which found satisfaction in material progress, correlates the well-being of humanity with the advancement of knowledge, and displayed a form of complacency which Rousseau sets out to shatter. His message falls uneasily on the ears of the acquisitive society. This volume contains the proceedings of a colloquium held in 1978 in Trinity College, Cambridge, to commemorate the bicentenary of Rousseau's death. It contains the complete text of the fourteen papers given before an invited audience by leading specialists, covering politics, sociology, language, literature and music. It also contains a slightly abridged version of the discussions to which these papers gave rise.Introduction; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of principal abbreviations; Part I. Politics and Sociology: 1. Rousseau and Kant: principles of political right Stephen Ellenburg; 2. Deux Contrats sociaux: Hume et Rousseau Jacques Voisine; 3. La Place et l'importance de la notion d'?galit? dans la doctrine politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau Robert Derath?; 4. Rousseau et Marx Jeanlób