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

Title: Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. d'Alembert on the Theatre
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN: 9780801490712
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1968
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Political Science 1516870

Publisher Description:

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 Molière), 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.