• Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Early Musical Writings - Music, Imitation and Illusion - Desire and the Danger of Marrying Berenice - Social Order and 'le pays des chimeres' - Les Confessions: 'Ivresse, delire, folies' - Dialogues and Reveries:Un monde ideal semblable au notre' - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index.
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'...discusses virtually all the musical writings which figure in this tome of the Oeuvres completes and may even be read as a companion volume, providing a key to the understanding of its various texts...O'Dea's vividly textured and finely nuanced reading of Rousseau's musical imagination plainly does complement the Pleiade collection in two striking ways...it offers a general interpretation of the place of the philosophy of music in Rousseau's thought that is addressed to concepts which flit in and out of particular works, articulated in a voice whose clarity of tone is unmatched by a chorus of editors. Second, it pursues its case across a range of texts spread far beyond the limits of any collection of Rousseau's essays on music.' - Robert Wokler, French Literature This new study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau suggests that his early articles on music for the Encyclopidie give a unique insight into his thinking on aesthetics, affectivity and desire. Rousseau is shown as moving subsequently between two opposed tendencies. He celebrates the voice as the vehicle for the most intense moments of human experience but also frequently attacks the surrender to passion implicit in that celebration, denouncing the arts and arguing that women must be confined to the domestic sphere.
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• The enlightenment republic of letters
• Philosophe, madman, revolutionary, god: the many faces of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Unsociable man: Rousseau's critique of enlightenment social thought
• Rousseau's counter-enlightenment republic of virtue
• On the utility of religion
• Dare to be ignorant!
• The worst of all possible worlds.

Annotation. Arguing that the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau s relationship to the Enlightenment has been eclipsed and seriously distorted by his association with the French Revolution, Graeme Garrard presents the first book-length case that shows Rousseau as the pivotal figure in the emergence of Counter-Enlightenment thought. Viewed in the context in which he actually lived and wrote -- from the middle of the eighteenth century to his death in 1778 -- it is apparent that Rousseau categorically rejected the Enlightenment "republic of letters" in favor of his own "republic of virtue." The philosophes, placing faith in reason and natural human sociability and subjecting religion to systematic criticism and doubt, naively minimized the deep tensions and complexities of collective life and the power disintegrative forces posed to social order. Rousseau believed that the ever precarious social order could only be achieved artificially, by manufacturing "sentiments of sociability, " reshaping individuals to identify with common interests instead of their own selfish interests.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations
• Prologue
• 1 Rousseau's Theory of Human Relations
• 2 Social Longing and Moral Perfection
• 3 Pity and Human Weakness
• 4 Romantic Love in Emile
• 5 Romantic Love in Julie
• 6 Friendship, Virtue, and Moral Authority
• 7 The Ecology of Justice
• 8 The Sociology of Wholeness
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography Index.
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In this volume, John Warner grapples with one of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's chief preoccupations: the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. Not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, Warner argues, but he also believed it was fundamentally unsolvable--that social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. This engaging study is founded on two basic but important questions: what do we want out of human relationships, and are we able to achieve what we are after? Warner traces his answers through the contours of Rousseau's thought on three distinct types of relationships--sexual love, friendship, and civil or political association--as well as alternate interpretations of Rousseau, such as that of the neo-Kantian Rawlsian school. The result is an insightful exploration of the way Rousseau inspires readers to imbue social relations with purpose and meaning, only to show the impossibility of reaching wholeness through such relationships. While Rousseau may raise our hopes only to dash them, Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations demonstrates that his ambitious failure offers unexpected insight into the human condition and into the limits of Rousseau's critical act.
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• Acknowledgments Editors' Preface Notice on citations and abbreviations Voltaire, Rousseau, and L'infame Raymond TROUSSON : Tolerance et fanatisme selon Voltaire et Rousseau The victims of fanaticism J. Patrick LEE: The condemnation of fanaticism in Voltaire's Sermon du rabbin Akib Anne-Marie MERCIER-FAIVRE : Du Traite sur la tolerance de Voltaire aux Lettres ecrites de la montagne de Rousseau: Variations sur la victime du fanatisme Ourida MOSTEFAI : Singularite et exemplarite du cas "Jean-Jacques": theorie et experience du fanatisme chez Rousseau Religion against intolerance John T. SCOTT: Pride and providence: Religion in Rousseau's Lettre a Voltaire sur la providence Christopher BERTRAM: Toleration and pluralism in Rousseau's civil religion Bruno BERNARDI : La religion civile, institution de tolerance? Fanaticism, cruelty, and pity Christopher KELLY: Pious cruelty: Rousseau on Voltaire's Mahomet Jeremiah L. ALBERG: Preventing fanaticism through transcendental violence: The second part of the "Profession de foi" Zev TRACHTENBERG: Civic fanaticism and the dynamics of pity Atheism and toleration Philip STEWART: Are atheists fanatics? Variations on a theme of Locke and Bayle John Hope MASON: At the limits of toleration: Rousseau and atheism Rousseau and l'Infame revisited Jean-Francois PERRIN : Penser l'hegemonie: intolerance et Lumieres dans Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques Michel SCHMOUCHKOVITCH : Portrait d'un fanatique? Jean-Jacques en Diogene Note on contributors Index.
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Ecrasez l'infame! Voltaire's rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition, prejudice, and intolerance advocated by most of the Enlightenment philosophers, regardless of their ideological differences. The aim of this book is to undertake a reconsideration of the controversies surrounding the questions of religion, toleration, and fanaticism in the eighteenth century through an examination of Rousseau's dialogue with Voltaire. What come to light from this confrontation are two leading and at times competing world views and conceptions of the place of the engaged writer in society.
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• Acknowledgments Editors' Preface Notice on citations and abbreviations Voltaire, Rousseau, and L'infame Raymond TROUSSON : Tolerance et fanatisme selon Voltaire et Rousseau The victims of fanaticism J. Patrick LEE: The condemnation of fanaticism in Voltaire's Sermon du rabbin Akib Anne-Marie MERCIER-FAIVRE : Du Traite sur la tolerance de Voltaire aux Lettres ecrites de la montagne de Rousseau: Variations sur la victime du fanatisme Ourida MOSTEFAI : Singularite et exemplarite du cas "Jean-Jacques": theorie et experience du fanatisme chez Rousseau Religion against intolerance John T. SCOTT: Pride and providence: Religion in Rousseau's Lettre a Voltaire sur la providence Christopher BERTRAM: Toleration and pluralism in Rousseau's civil religion Bruno BERNARDI : La religion civile, institution de tolerance? Fanaticism, cruelty, and pity Christopher KELLY: Pious cruelty: Rousseau on Voltaire's Mahomet Jeremiah L. ALBERG: Preventing fanaticism through transcendental violence: The second part of the "Profession de foi" Zev TRACHTENBERG: Civic fanaticism and the dynamics of pity Atheism and toleration Philip STEWART: Are atheists fanatics? Variations on a theme of Locke and Bayle John Hope MASON: At the limits of toleration: Rousseau and atheism Rousseau and l'Infame revisited Jean-Francois PERRIN : Penser l'hegemonie: intolerance et Lumieres dans Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques Michel SCHMOUCHKOVITCH : Portrait d'un fanatique? Jean-Jacques en Diogene Note on contributors Index.
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Ecrasez l'infame! Voltaire's rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition, prejudice, and intolerance advocated by most of the Enlightenment philosophers, regardless of their ideological differences. The aim of this book is to undertake a reconsideration of the controversies surrounding the questions of religion, toleration, and fanaticism in the eighteenth century through an examination of Rousseau's dialogue with Voltaire. What come to light from this confrontation are two leading and at times competing world views and conceptions of the place of the engaged writer in society.
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• The terms classic and romantic.
• Romantic genius.
• Romantic imagination.
• Romantic morality: The ideal.
• Romantic morality: The real.
• Romantic love.
• Romantic irony.
• Romanticism and nature.
• Romantic melancholy.
• The present outlook.
• Appendix: Chinese primitivism.