Letters from Rousseau: Selected Correspondence (Agora Editions)

Synopsis

Letters from Rousseau is the first extensive collection of translations of Rousseau's correspondence into English in more than eighty years. Many of the letters have not been translated before, while others address substantive issues in his thought and complement his published writings. Although these letters went through the post as ordinary letters, once Rousseau became famous, he knew that they might be opened by the police and that they were very likely to be circulated and even published. Indeed, he wrote some of them with a view to their ultimate publication.Rousseau's enormous "private" correspondence extends into all periods of his life, including intimate letters to friends, letters to famous individuals, and responses to readers who posed philosophic questions to him. Thus, Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly also share his responses to readers who had been moved by his books. Further, this volume includes letters written to or about major intellectual figures, such as Diderot, Voltaire, Hume, and Mirabeau.

Copyright:

2025

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

624 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781501781940

Related ISBNs:

9781501781933, 9781501781957

Publisher:

Cornell University Press

Date of Addition:

07/15/25

Copyrighted By:

Cornell University,

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Eve Grace

Edited by:

Christopher Kelly