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  The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

  by Jean Jacques Rousseau

  Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, "The Confessions" is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his "Confessions" he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his... (more)
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  The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

  by Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Jacques Rousseau

  After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the manner in which he has... (more)
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  Basic Political Writings

  by Jean Jacques Rousseau, Donald A. Cress

  "The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers of courses in political philosophy and the history of political theory..." -- Raymon M. Lemos, Teaching Philosophy "The single most comprehensive, reliable and economical collection of Rousseau's explicitly political writings." -- Michael Franz, Loyola College
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  The Social Contract

  by Jean Jacques Rousseau

  'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of... (more)
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  City of Darkness, City of Light

  by Marge Peircy

  "FAST-PACED . . . PIERCY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO SHAPED THE REVOLUTION." --San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle In her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts. Defiantly independent Claire Lacombe tests her theory:... (more)
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  Julie, or the New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps (Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Works. Vol. 6.)

  by Jean Jacques Rousseau, Roger D. Masters

  A novel in which Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm.
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  The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War One

  by Roger Shattuck

  Portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism.
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  Casanova in Bohemia : A Novel

  by Andrei Codrescu

  Beloved NPR commentator and popular author Andrei Codrescu makes a stunning return to historical fiction, detailing the adventurous life and erotic times of the famed illuminist Giacomo Casanova. In his national bestseller The Blood Countess, Andrei Codrescu brought to life the bloodthirsty royal Elizabeth Bathory, who embodied nearly all the contradictions of the seventeenth century. Now he depicts the... (more)
• Collected Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau (The Giant International Series)Jean Jacques Rousseau

  

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  Collected Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau (The Giant International Series)

  by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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  Emile

  or, On Education

  by Jean Jacques Rousseau

  A clear, readable, and highly engrossing translation of Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young.
• GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD VOLUME 38 MONTESQUIEU ROUSSEAUBaron De/Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Montesquieu

  

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  GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD VOLUME 38 MONTESQUIEU ROUSSEAU

  by Baron De/Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Montesquieu

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  Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution

  by Michael Sonenscher

  This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and economics of the revolution can be combined to form a genuinely historical narrative of its content and course. To... (more)
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  Mr. Mee

  by Andrew Crumey

  In this inventive novel, octogenarian book collector Mr. Mee discovers the Internet with life-changing results. Told from the points of view of the guileless Mr. Mee, two eighteenth century French philosophers, and a middle-aged university professor, Andrew Crumey's book concerns the creation and mysterious disappearance of Rosier's Encyclopaedia, an explosive text written more than two hundred years ago that... (more)