Rousseau and l'Infâme by Mostefai, Ourida

Rousseau and l'Infâme (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789042025059)

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Rousseau and l'Infâme by Mostefai, Ourida

Rousseau and l'Infâme

$117.00
Rousseau and l'Infâme by Mostefai, Ourida

Rousseau and l'Infâme

$117.00
Format: Paperback
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Ecrasez l'infâme! Voltaire's rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition, prejudice, and intolerance advocated by most of the Enlightenment philosophers, regardless of their ideological differences. The aim of this book is to undertake a reconsideration of the controversies surrounding the questions of religion, toleration, and fanaticism in the eighteenth century through an examination of Rousseau's dialogue with Voltaire. What come to light from this confrontation are two leading and at times competing world views and conceptions of the place of the engaged writer in society.

Author: Ourida Mostefai
ISBN-10: 9042025050
ISBN-13: 9789042025059
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.70d
By Ourida Mostefai
By Ourida Mostefai
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Ourida Mostefai is Associate Professor of French at Boston College. Author of Le Citoyen de Genève et la République des Lettres: étude de la controverse autour de la "Lettre à d'Alembert" (2003), she has edited Lectures de "La Nouvelle Héloïse" (1993) and co-edited, with John C. O'Neal, Approaches to Teaching Rousseau's "Confessions" and "Rêveries" (2003).
John T. Scott is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He has translated and edited Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music, and edited Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (4 volumes, 2005). He is the author, with Robert Zaretsky, of The Rift: Rousseau, Hume and the Quarrel that Shook the Enlightenment (2009).

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