The Cambridge companion to Rousseau / edited by Patrick Riley

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-449) and index

Introduction: life and works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) / Patrick Riley -- A general overview / George Armstrong Kelly -- Rousseau, Voltaire, and the revenge of Pascal / Mark Hulliung -- Rousseau, Feńelon, and the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns / Patrick Riley -- Rousseau's political philosophy: stoic and Augustinian origins / Christopher Brooke -- Rousseau's general will / Patrick Riley -- Rousseau's images of authority (especially in La Nouvelle Heĺois̈e) / Judith N. Shklar -- The religious thought / Victor Gourevitch -- Eḿile: learning to be men, women, and citizens / Geraint Parry -- Eḿile: nature and the education of Sophie / Susan Meld Shell -- Rousseau's Confessions / Christopher Kelly -- Music, politics, theatre, and representation in Rousseau / C.N. Dugan and Tracy B. Strong -- The motto Vitam impendere vero and the question of lying / Jean Starobinski -- Rousseau's The levite of Ephraim̈: synthesis within a "minor" walk / Thomas Kavanagh -- Ancient postmodernism in the philosophy of Rousseau / Robert Wokler.

Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specifically commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.