Books by Leo Damrosch
“This is a one-volume biography by Leo Damrosch. It’s quite racily-written, very readable. There are other biographies of Rousseau, some of them very scholarly…Rousseau was a biographer of himself, an autobiographer. The most famous of his autobiographical writings is the Confessions, but there’s also Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and the famous Dialogues, where you have a very paranoid Rousseau in conversation with another character, ‘the Frenchman,’ concerning the faults of an alter ego, Jean-Jacques. So Rousseau did tell the story of his own life, but Damrosch tells it very well in English.” Read more...
The best books on Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chris Bertram, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Leo Damrosch were recommended
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
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Reading Rousseau in the Nuclear Age
by Grace Roosevelt -
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Rousseau: An Introduction to His Psychological, Social and Political Theory
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Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies
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Rousseau’s Critique of Inequality
by Frederick Neuhouser
The best books on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, recommended by Chris Bertram
The best books on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, recommended by Chris Bertram
The 18th century composer, writer and philosopher spent his latter years “alone upon the earth, having no brother, or neighbour, or friend, or society but myself”. But he only had himself to blame, says philosophy professor and Rousseau scholar Chris Bertram. Here, he chooses the best five books on this complex man’s life and work.
