The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau

1 Introduction: the life and works Rousseau Patrick Riley 2 A general overview George Armstrong Kelly 3 Rousseau, Voltaire, and the revenge Pascal Mark Hulliung 4 Rousseau, Fenelon, and the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns Patrick Riley 5 Rousseau’s political philosophy Christopher Brooke 6 Rousseau’s general will Patrick Riley 7 Rousseau’s images of authority especially in La Nouvelle Heloise Judith Shklar 8 The religious thought Victor Gourevitch 9 Emile: learning to be men, women and citizens Geraint Parry 10 Emile: nature and the education Sophie Susan Meld Shell 11 Rousseau’s Confessions Christopher Kelly 12 Music, politics, theater and representation in Rousseau Tracy Strong and C.N. Dugan 13 The motto Vitam Impendere vero and the question of lying Jean Starobinski 14 Rousseau’s Levite of Ephraim: synthesis within a ‘minor’ work Thomas Kavanagh 15 Ancient Postmodernism in the philosophy of Rousseau Robert Wokler Bibliography.