Jean-Jacques Rousseau au jour le jour: Chronologie.(Review)

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 2000| | Copyright

Politique et revolution chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Ed. by Equipe Rousseau (U.R.A. 96 de l'Universite de Paris IV), under the direction of TANGUY L'AMINOT. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 324) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1994. 188 pp.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau au jour le jour: Chronologie. By RAYMOND TROUSSON and FREDERIC S. EIGELDINGER. Paris: Champion. 1998. 436 pp.

The Equipe Rousseau's pluridisciplinary volume attests the vigour of Rousseau scholarship today. I limit my comments to essays that address the problems implied in the title: these ...

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