Rousseau on Society, Politics, Music and Language: An Historical Interpretation of His Early Writings. New York: Garland, 1987. Also presented as an Oxford D.Phil dissertation entitled, ‘The Social Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: An Historical Interpretation of His Early Writings’, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1976. N.B. An unknown number of copies were mistakenly published by Garland under the title The Social Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Rousseau, Past Masters series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995; reissued with corrections, 1996; German translation by M. Rehm, Freiburg: Herder, 1999; Japanese translation by S. Yamamoto, Osaka: Koyo Shobo, 2000; Italian translation by S. Ferlini, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001; Korean translation by J. I. Lee, Seoul: Sigongsa, 2001; Turkish translation by C. Atila, Istanbul: Altin Kitaplar, 2003; reissued as Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction, revised, expanded and illustrated for the Very Short Introductions series, 2001; Greek translation by P. N. Pantazakos, Athens: Ellinika Grammata (distributed with To Vima), 2006; Albanian translation by J. Qineti, Tirana: Ideart, 2008; French translation by S. Baudry and D. Reynaud, Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2011; Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish translations in progress.
Correspondance complète de Jean Jacques Rousseau, ed. R. A. Leigh, revised by R. Wokler and J. Laming, vol. 47. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1988.
Correspondance complète de Jean Jacques Rousseau, ed. R. A. Leigh, revised by R. Wokler and J. Laming, vol. 48. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1988.
Correspondance complète de Jean Jacques Rousseau, ed. R. A. Leigh, revised by R. Wokler and J. Laming, vol. 49, including Wokler’s ‘Avertissement du Quarante-Neuvième Volume’. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1989.
Man and Society: Political and Social Theories from Machiavelli to Marx, by John Plamenatz, a new edition, expanded and revised with M. E. Plamenatz, vol. 1: From the Middle Ages to Locke. London: Longman, 1992.
Man and Society: Political and Social Theories from Machiavelli to Marx, by John Plamenatz, a new edition, expanded and revised with M. E. Plamenatz, vol. 2: From Montesquieu to the Early Socialists. London: Longman, 1992.
Man and Society: Political and Social Theories from Machiavelli to Marx, by John Plamenatz, a new edition, expanded and revised with M. E. Plamenatz, vol. 3: Hegel, Marx and Engels, and the Idea of Progress. London: Longman, 1992.
Political Writings, by Denis Diderot, ed. and trans. with J. Hope Mason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Rousseau and the Eighteenth Century: Essays in Memory of R. A. Leigh, ed. with M. Hobson and J. T. A. Leigh, including Wokler’s ‘Preparing the Definitive Edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau’. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1992.
Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains, ed. with C. Fox and R. Porter, including Wokler’s ‘Anthropology and Conjectural History in the Enlightenment’ and ‘The Enlightenment Science of Politics’. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Rousseau and Liberty (principally proceedings of a Trinity College, Cambridge colloquium sponsored by the Liberty Fund, 1988), including Wokler’s ‘Rousseau and His Critics on the Fanciful Liberties We Have Lost’. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.
The Enlightenment and Modernity, ed. with N. Geras, including Wokler’s ‘The Enlightenment, the Nation-State and the Primal Patricide of Modernity’. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.
Isaiah Berlin’s Counter-Enlightenment, ed. with J. Mali (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 93.5), including Wokler’s ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment’. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2003.
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, ed. with M. Goldie, including Wokler’s ‘Ideology and the Origins of Social Science’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
‘Rameau, Rousseau and the Essai sur l’origine des langues’. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 117 (1974): 179–238; see corrigenda in 132 (1975): 112 (monograph).
‘The Influence of Diderot on the Political Theory of Rousseau’. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 132 (1975): 55–111 (monograph).
‘Tyson and Buffon on the Orang-utan’. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 155 (1976): 2301–19. (Vols. 151–55 comprise Transactions of the Fourth International Congress of the Enlightenment, New Haven, 1975.)
‘L’orango e l’uomo secondo Tyson e Buffon’, Ethos 5.3 (September 1977): 249–65. (This is an expanded version of ‘Tyson and Buffon’ above, and in part Wokler’s own translation of it.)
‘Perfectible Apes in Decadent Cultures: Rousseau’s Anthropology Revisited’ in ‘Rousseau for Our Time’, special issue, Daedalus 107.3 (Summer 1978): 107–34.
‘Rousseau on Rameau and Revolution’, in R. F. Brissenden and J. C. Eade (eds.), Studies in the Eighteenth Century, vol. 4 (Papers presented at the Fourth David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra, 1976). Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1979, pp. 251–83.
‘Rousseau’s Perfectibilian Libertarianism’, in A. Ryan (ed.), The Idea of Freedom: Essays in Honour of Isaiah Berlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979, pp. 233–52.
‘The Ape Debates in Enlightenment Anthropology’, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 192 (1980): 1164–75. (Vols. 190–93 comprise Transactions of the Fifth International Congress of the Enlightenment, Pisa, 1979).
‘The Discours sur les sciences et les arts and Its Offspring: Rousseau in Reply to His Critics’, in S. Harvey, M. Hobson, D. Kelley and S. S. B. Taylor (eds.), Reappraisals of Rousseau: Studies in Honour of R. A. Leigh. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980, pp. 250–78.
‘A Reply to Charvet: Rousseau and the Perfectibility of Man’. History of Political Thought 1.1 (Spring 1980): 81–90. (This paper was read at the 1978 Oxford Political Thought Conference.)
‘L’Essai sur l’origine des langues en tant que fragment du Discours sur l’inégalité: Rousseau et ses “mauvais” interprètes’, in M. Launay (ed.), Rousseau et Voltaire en 1978: Actes du Colloque international de Nice, juin 1978. Geneva: Slatkine, 1981, pp. 145–69.
‘Perfectibility of Man’, in W. F. Bynum, E. J. Browne and R. Porter (eds.), Dictionary of the History of Science. London: Macmillan, 1981, 316–17.
‘From the Orang-utan to the Vampire: Towards an Anthropology of Rousseau’ (with C. Frayling), in R. A. Leigh (ed.), Rousseau after Two Hundred Years: Proceedings of the Cambridge Bicentennial Colloquium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 109–29.
‘Rousseau and Marx’, in D. Miller and L. Siedentop (eds.), The Nature of Political Theory (essays in honour of John Plamenatz). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983, pp. 219–46.
‘Rousseau’, in Political Thought from Plato to Nato, introduced by B. Redhead. London: Ariel Books/British Broadcasting Corporation, 1984, pp. 120–34. (This volume was published to accompany Radio 4’s Plato to Nato series first broadcast from 18 May 1984). Reissued with minor revisions as Plato to Nato: Studies in Political Thought (London: Penguin/BBC Books, 1995).
‘Rousseau e Marx’, Bolletino di Storia della filosofia 8 (March 1987): 83–112. (This is an amended and expanded translation, on which Wokler collaborated, of ‘Rousseau and Marx’ above.)
‘La Querelle des Bouffons and the Italian Liberation of France: A Study of Revolutionary Foreplay’, in C. Duckworth and H. Le Grand (eds.), ‘Studies in the Eighteenth Century’, vol. 6 (Papers presented at the Sixth David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Melbourne, 1983), special issue, Eighteenth Century Life 11, n.s., 1 (February 1987): 94–116.
‘Rousseau’s Two Concepts of Liberty’, in G. Feaver and F. Rosen (eds.), Lives, Liberties and the Public Good. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987, pp. 61–100.
‘Saint-Simon and the Passage from Political to Social Science’, in A. Pagden (ed.), The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 325–38.
Entries in M. A. Riff (ed.), Dictionary of Political Ideologies. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987: ‘Introduction’, xi–xiv; and ‘The Enlightenment’, 74–86.
‘Our Illusory Chains: Rousseau’s Images of Bondage and Freedom’, in M. Cranston and L. C. Boralevi (eds.), Culture et Politique / Culture and Politics. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1988, pp. 41–50.
‘Natural Law and the Meaning of Rousseau’s Political Thought: A Correction to Two Misrenderings of His Doctrine’, in G. Barber, C. Courtney and D. Gilson (eds.), Enlightenment Essays in Memory of Robert Shackleton. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1988, pp. 319–35.
‘Apes and Races in the Scottish Enlightenment: Monboddo and Kames on the Nature of Man’, in P. Jones (ed.), Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1988, pp. 145–68.
‘Avertissement du Quarante-neuvième Volume’, in Correspondance complète de Jean Jacques Rousseau, ed. R. A. Leigh, revised by R. Wokler and J. Laming, vol. 49. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1989, pp. xxiii–xxvi.
Entries in J. Yolton, R. Porter, P. Rogers and B. M. Stafford (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991; American edition, 1992: ‘Civilization’, 88–90; ‘Democracy’, 119–20; ‘Liberalism’, 286’; ‘Liberty’, 286–87; ‘Negroes’, 361–62; ‘New World’, 369–70; ‘Optimism’, 382–83; ‘Patriotism’, 387–88; ‘People, The’, 391–93; ‘Physiocracy’, 402; ‘Politeness’, 410; ‘Primitivism’, 422–23; ‘Progress’, 427–28; ‘Property’, 428–29; ‘Rights’, 458–59; and ‘Savagery’, 473.
‘Preparing the Definitive Edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau’, in Rousseau and the Eighteenth Century: Essays in Memory of R. A. Leigh, ed. M. Hobson, J. T. A. Leigh and R. Wokler. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1992, pp. 3–21.
‘Taking Stock of the Leigh Edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau’. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1807–11. (Vols. 303–5 comprise Transactions of the Eighth International Congress of the Enlightenment, Bristol, 1991.)
‘Anthropology and Conjectural History in the Enlightenment’. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1894–95. (Vols. 303–5 comprise Transactions of the Eighth International Congress of the Enlightenment, Bristol, 1991.)
‘Hegel’s Rousseau: The General Will and Civil Society’, in S.-E. Liedman (ed.), ‘Deutscher Idealismus’ (papers presented at a symposium on German Idealism in November 1991, Göteborg), special issue, Arachne 8 (1993): 7–45.
‘From l’homme physique to l’homme moral and Back: Towards a History of Enlightenment Anthropology’ in ‘Origins of the Human Sciences’, special issue, History of the Human Sciences 6.1 (February 1993): 121–38.
‘Democracy’s Mythical Ordeals: The Promethean and Procrustean Paths to Popular Self-Rule’, in M. Moran and G. Parry (eds.), Democracy and Democratization. London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 21–46.
‘Projecting the Enlightenment’, in J. Horton and S. Mendus (eds.), After MacIntyre. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994, pp. 108–26.
‘Rousseau’s Pufendorf: Natural Law and the Foundations of Commercial Society’. History of Political Thought 15.3 (Autumn 1994): 373–402.
‘Ralph Alexander Leigh’, obituary notice. Proceedings of the British Academy 84 (1994): 369–91.
‘Hegel versus Kant: From the Enlightenment Project to Post-Modernity’, in K. Haakonssen and U. Thiel (eds.), History of Philosophy Yearbook, vol. 2 (proceedings of a colloquium on Kant and Philosophical Theories of Human Nature in the Eighteenth Century), for the Australasian Society for the History of Philosophy. Canberra: Australian National University, 1994, pp. 85–99.
Entries in J. Black and R. Porter (eds.), A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994: ‘Race’, 626; and ‘Savagery’, 661.
‘Anthropology and Conjectural History in the Enlightenment’, in C. Fox, R. Porter and R. Wokler (eds.), Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), pp. 31–52.
‘The Enlightenment Science of Politics’, in C. Fox, R. Porter and R. Wokler (eds.), Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), pp. 323–45.
‘Rousseau and His Critics on the Fanciful Liberties We Have Lost’, in Rousseau and Liberty. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995, pp. 189–212.
‘The Nexus of Animal and Rational: Sociobiology, Language and the Enlightenment Study of Apes’, in S. Maasen, E. Mendelsohn and P. Weingart (eds.), Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 18, 1994. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995, pp. 81–103.
‘Enlightening Apes: Eighteenth-Century Speculation and Current Experiments on Linguistic Competence’, in R. Corbey and B. Theunissen (eds.), Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views since 1600 (proceedings of the 1993 Leiden Pithecanthropus Centennial). Leiden: Department of Prehistory, Leiden University, 1995, pp. 87–100.
‘Regressing towards Post-Modernity’, in L. Clark and G. Lafrance (eds.), Rousseau and Criticism / Rousseau et la critique (proceedings of the North American Association for the Study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Colloquium of 1993, Trent), Pensée Libre no. 5 (Ottawa, 1995), pp. 263–72.
‘Situating Rousseau in His World and Ours’. Social Science Information 34.4 (December 1995): 515–37. (This article was the Arthur Wilson Memorial Lecture presented at Dartmouth College, January 1995.)
‘Todorov’s Otherness’ in ‘A Symposium on “Living Alone Together” ’, special issue, New Literary History 27.1 (Winter 1996): 43–55.
‘Diderot, Denis’, in J. J. Chabliss (ed.), Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1996, 155–58.
‘Rousseau’, in T. Mautner (ed.), A Dictionary of Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, 372–73. Reissued as The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy (London: Penguin, 1997).
Entries in F. Spencer (ed.), History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1997: ‘Monboddo, Lord (James Burnett)’, 2:681–83; ‘Rousseau, Jean-Jacques’, 2:887–90; and ‘Tyson, Edward’, 2:1048–50.
‘Deconstructing the Self on the Wild Side’, in T. O’Hagan (ed.), Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Sources of the Self. London: Avebury, 1997, pp. 106–19.
‘Dr Besterman, I Presume’, in U. Kölving and C. Mervaud (eds.), Voltaire et ses combats: Actes du congrès international Oxford-Paris 1994, vol. 1. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1997, pp. 21–36.
‘The French Revolutionary Roots of Political Modernity in Hegel’s Philosophy, or the Enlightenment at Dusk’. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 35 (Spring–Summer 1997): 71–89.
‘Rousseau et la liberté’. Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau 41 (1997): 205–29. (This essay was originally presented as the 1989 annual lecture to the Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Geneva.)
‘The Enlightenment Project and Its Critics’, in S.-E. Liedman (ed.), ‘The Postmodernist Critique of the Project of the Enlightenment’ (proceedings of a colloquium held in Göteborg, April 1995), special issue, Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 58 (1997): 13–31.
‘The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity’, in J. Heilbron, L. Magnusson, and B. Wittrock (eds.), The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity: Conceptual Change in Context, 1750–1850, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 20, 1996. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998, pp. 35–76. (This paper was originally presented at a conference in Uppsala in July 1993.)
Entries in E. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1998: ‘Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de’, 2:120–23; ‘Diderot, Denis’, 3:63–69; ‘Enlightenment, Continental’, 3:315–20; and ‘Monboddo, Lord (James Burnett), 6:473–74.
‘Contextualizing Hegel’s Phenomenology of the French Revolution and the Terror’. Political Theory 26.1 (February 1998): 33–55.
‘The Subtextual Reincarnation of Voltaire and Rousseau’. American Scholar 67.2 (Spring 1998): 55–64.
‘Pistols for Two and Coffee for One: Rekindling Voltaire’s and Rousseau’s Quarrel in the Footnotes’. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 362 (1998): 1–10.
‘The Enlightenment Project as Betrayed by Modernity’, History of European Ideas 24.4–5 (1998): 301–13. (This essay was adapted as the Torgny Segerstedt Professorial Lecture delivered in Uppsala in March 1998.)
‘The Manuscript Authority of Political Thoughts’, in ‘Scholastics, Enlightenment and Philosophic Radicals: Essays in Honour of J. H. Burns’, special issue, History of Political Thought 20.1 (Spring 1999): 107–24. (This paper was based on a talk presented at the 1994 Oxford Political Thought Conference.)
Entries in R. L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999: ‘Rousseau’, 476–79; and ‘Voltaire’, 531–33.
‘The Enlightenment: The Nation-State and the Primal Patricide of Modernity’. Discussion Paper Series 46 (Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, 1999). Reprinted and adapted as ‘The Enlightenment, the Nation-State and the Primal Patricide of Modernity’, in N. Geras and R. Wokler (eds.), The Enlightenment and Modernity (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 161–83.
‘Multiculturalism and Ethnic Cleansing in the Enlightenment’, in O. P. Grell and R. Porter (eds.), Toleration in Enlightenment Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 69–85.
‘The Enlightenment Project on the Eve of the Holocaust’, in J. Kaye and B. Stråth (eds.), Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of Modernity. Brussels: Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes, 2000, pp. 59–79.
‘Ernst Cassirer’s Enlightenment: An Exchange with Bruce Mazlish’. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 29 (2000): 335–48.
‘From the Moral and Political Sciences to the Sciences of Society by Way of the French Revolution’, in B. S. Byrd, J. Hruschka and J. C. Joerden (eds.), ‘The Origin and Development of the Moral Sciences in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century’, special issue, Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics 8 (2000): 33–45.
‘The Professoriate of Political Thought in England since 1914: A Tale of Three Chairs’, in D. Castiglione and I. Hampsher-Monk (eds.), The History of Political Thought in National Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 134–58.
‘Ancient Postmodernism in the Philosophy of Rousseau’, in R. Grant and P. Stewart (eds.), Rousseau and the Ancients / Rousseau et les anciens, Pensée Libre no. 8 (Montreal, 2001), pp. 33–47. Expanded in P. Riley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 418–43. (This essay was the keynote address of the 1999 colloquium of the North American Association for the Study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau at Duke University.)
‘Repatriating Modernity’s Alleged Debts to the Enlightenment: French Revolutionary Social Science and the Genesis of the Nation State’, in P. Joyce (ed.), The Social in Question. London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 62–80.
‘Political Modernity’s Critical Juncture in the Course of the French Revolution’, in N. Witoszek and L. Trägårdh (eds.), Culture and Crisis: The Case of Germany and Sweden. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002, pp. 202–18.
‘Der besondere Charakter der ländlichen Aufklärung des Nordens’, review essay on Ø. Sørenson and B. Stråth (eds.), The Cultural Construction of Norden, in B. Henningsen (ed.), Das Projekt norden: Essays zur Konstruktion einer europäischen Region, Wahlverwandtschaft-der Norden und Deutschland, vol. 9, Berlin: Verlag, 2002, pp. 58–64. (This essay was prepared for a conference on the Union of Kalmar between Verdun and Maastricht, held in Kalmar in October 1997.)
‘Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment’, in A. Kovács and E. Andor (eds.), Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 2, 1999–2001. Budapest: Central European University Jewish Studies, 2002, pp. 205–19. Reprinted and expanded in J. Mali and R. Wokler (eds.), Isaiah Berlin’s Counter-Enlightenment. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2003, pp. 13–31.
Entries in A. Kuper and J. Kuper (eds.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2004: ‘Rousseau, Jean-Jacques’, 2:894–96; and ‘Social Contract’, 2:933–35.
‘Enlightenment’, in D. L. Shelton (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. New York: Macmillan, 2005, 286–87.
Entries in J. Merriman and J. Winter (eds.), Europe, 1789–1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire. Detroit, Mich.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006: ‘Bonald, Louis de’, 1:268–69; ‘Burke, Edmund’, 1:326–28; and ‘Utilitarianism’, 5:2392–94.
‘Rousseau’s Reading of the Book of Genesis and the Theology of Commercial Society’. Modern Intellectual History 3.1 (April 2006): 85–94.
‘Ideology and the Origins of Social Science’, in M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 688–709.
‘Rites of Passage and the Grand Tour: Discovering, Imagining and Inventing European Civilization in the Age of Enlightenment’, in A. Molho, D. R. Curto and N. Koniordos (eds.), Finding Europe: Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images, ca. 13th– ca. 18th Centuries. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007, pp. 205–22.
‘A Guide to Isaiah Berlin’s Political Ideas in the Romantic Age’ (with an introduction by J. L. Cherniss and R. P. Hanley). History of Political Thought 29.2 (Summer 2008): 344–69.
‘All Ears’, in H. Hardy (ed.), The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009, pp. 169–73. Also a biographical memoir (abridged) in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 150.4 (December 2006): 669–72. (This was a commemorative lecture delivered by Robert Wokler at the Harvard Club in New York on 2 June 1998; it first appeared on the website of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust in 2006.)
‘On the Death of Malcolm X: The Politics of Fratricide’, in ‘Race,’ special issue, Clare Market Review (student journal of the London School of Economics) 62.1 (1965): 22–25.
‘The Angels of Destruction Visit California’ (on the Los Angeles race riots), in ‘Conflict’, special issue, Clare Market Review 62.2 (1965): 10–13.
‘Rousseau’s Politics’, review of R. Grimsley (ed.), Jean-Jacques Rousseau: du contrat social. Government and opposition 8.4 (Autumn 1973): 518–22.
Review of R. Grimsley, The Philosophy of Rousseau and J. Hall, Rousseau: An Introduction to His Political Philosophy. Philosophical Quarterly 24.96 (July 1974): 281–84.
‘Rousseau’s Paradox’, review of K. F. Roche, Rousseau: Stoic and Romantic and J. Charvet, The Social Problem in the Philosophy of Rousseau. Times Higher Education Supplement, 20 September 1974, p. 18.
Review of F. O’Gorman, Edmund Burke: His Philosophy and D. Cameron, The Social Thought of Rousseau and Burke: A Comparative Study. Political Studies 22.4 (December 1974): 486–90.
‘The Analogies of Nature’, review of A. Verri, Lord Monboddo, dalla metafisica all’antropologia. Times Literary Supplement, 11 March 1977, pp. 262–63.
Replies to letter on Monboddo in Times Literary Supplement, 6 May 1977, pp. 561, and 17 June 1977, p. 733.
‘The Very Rhythm of Rousseau’, review of S. Ellenburg, Rousseau’s Political Philosophy. Times Literary Supplement, 19 August 1977, p. 995.
‘The Enlightenment and the Revolution: Some Notes on Norman Hampson’s Variations on a Theme by Robert Darnton’. British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Newsletter 13 (October 1977): 18–21.
Catalogue of Voltaire and Rousseau, a book exhibition to commemorate the bicentenary of their deaths (with D. Adams), John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, February 1978.
‘The Enlightenment Hostilities of Voltaire and Rousseau’ (feature article), Times Higher Education Supplement, 29 September 1978, pp. 9–10.
Review of B. Parekh (ed.), Jeremy Bentham: Ten Critical Essays and R. Steintrager, Bentham. Political Studies 27.2 (June 1979): 340.
Review of R. Fralin, Rousseau and Representation. Political Studies 28.2 (June 1980): 325.
‘Descending into Paranoia’, review of R. A. Leigh (ed.), Correspondance complète de Jean Jacques Rousseau, vols. 34–36. Times Literary Supplement, 6 February 1981, p. 143.
Review of M. F. Plattner, Rousseau’s State of Nature: An Interpretation of the Discourse on Inegality. Political Studies 29.1 (March 1981): 156–57.
‘The Apes and Us’, review of thirteen books on sociobiology and ethology. Quarto 15 (March 1981): 5–7 (publisher’s correction in Quarto 16 [April 1981]: 20).
‘The Great Dissimulator’, review of H. C. Mansfield Jr., Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy. Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 April 1981, p. 17.
‘Eminently Enlightened’, review of H. Mason, Voltaire. Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 October 1981, p. 1216.
Review of N. O. Keohane, Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Political Studies 29.4 (December 1981): 657.
Review of J. T. Schleifer, The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Political Studies 29.4 (December 1981): 658.
‘Adrift in a Gene Pool’, review of P. Singer, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology. Times Higher Education Supplement, 26 February 1982, p. 22.
‘A Polity of Nature’, review of J. Howard, Darwin and W. George, Darwin. Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 July 1982, p. 17.
‘Critical Dialectic’, review of S. Rose (ed.), Against Biological Determinism and Towards a Liberatory Biology. Times Higher Education Supplement 30 July 1982, p. 17.
‘Natural Slavery’, review of A. Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology. Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 February 1983, p. 15.
‘Balance of Life’, review of M. Barthélemy-Madaule, Lamarck the Mythical Precursor. Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 March 1983, p. 17.
Review of M. Cranston and P. Mair (eds.), Ideology and Politics. Political Studies 31.1 (March 1983): 164–65.
Review of B. Noone Jr., Rousseau’s ‘Social Contract’: A Conceptual Analysis. Political Studies 31.1 (March 1983): 169–70.
Review of J. A. Bernstein, Shaftesbury, Rousseau and Kant: An Introduction to the Conflict between Aesthetic and Moral Values in Modern Thought. Ethics 93.3 (April 1983): 640–41.
Review of R. Porter and M. Teich (eds.), The Enlightenment in National Context Political Studies 31.2 (June 1983): 343–44.
‘The Vagabondage of the Philosophe’, review of R. A. Leigh (ed.), Correspondance complète de Jean Jacques Rousseau, vols. 37–40 and M. Cranston, The Early Life and Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Times Literary Supplement, 2 September 1983, p. 919–20 (publisher’s correction in TLS, 9 September 1983, p. 961).
Review of K. Taylor, The Political Ideas of the Utopian Socialists. Political Studies 31.3 (September 1983): 529.
‘Founding a School for Statesmanship’, review of S. Collini, D. Winch and J. Burrow, That Noble Savage of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History. Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 March 1984, p. 15.
‘Look to Nature’, review of R. Brown, The Nature of Social Laws: Machiavelli to Mill. Times Higher Education Supplement, 30 November 1984, p. 16.
Review of D. LaCapra and S. L. Kaplan (eds.), Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives. Political Studies 33.1 (March 1985): 174–75.
Review of B. Goodwin and K. Taylor, The Politics of Utopia. Political Studies 33.1 (March 1985): 175–76.
‘R. A. Leigh’ (obituary). Daily Telegraph, 2 January 1988, p. 12.
‘Brain Drain “Myth” ’ (letter). The Times, 24 February 1989, p. 13.
Review of J. Miller, Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy. Journal of Modern History 61.2 (June 1989): 380–81.
‘Liberty, Egality and Fratricide’ (feature article). Times Higher Education Supplement, 14 July 1989, pp. 15–16.
Introduction to A Catalogue of Saint Simon. Wickmere, Norfolk: Merrion Book Company, 1989.
‘Serious Bookworms Should Go to Japan’ (letter). Independent, 26 July 1990, p. 24.
‘Vagabondage’, review of M. Cranston, The Noble Savage. new Statesman, 12 April 1991, pp. 36–37.
Introduction to A Catalogue of John Wilkes and Liberty. Wickmere, Norfolk: Merrion Book Company, 1991.
‘Prop Forward’, review of P. N. Furbank, Diderot: A Critical Biography. New Statesman, 8 May 1992, p. 40.
‘Why was Firm Prosecuted?’ (letter). Daily Telegraph, 12 November 1992, p. 20.
‘Europe’s Shameful Example to the World’ (letter). Guardian, 6 March 1993, p. 26.
‘The Blood Spilled in Bosnia is on Britain’s Hands’ (letter). Sunday Times, 25 April 1993, p. 7.
‘Keeping It in the Family’, review of P. Cavalieri and P. Singer (eds.), The Great Ape Project. Times Literary Supplement, 17 September 1993, pp. 5–6. Reprinted in J. Koobatian, The Thinking Reader (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2002), pp. 205–9.
Review of I. Hampsher-Monk, A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx. Political Studies 41.4 (December 1993): 685.
Review of N. J. H. Dent (ed.), A Rousseau Dictionary. Political Studies 41.4 (December 1993): 719–20.
Introduction to A Catalogue of Benjamin Franklin. Wickmere, Norfolk: Merrion Book Company, 1994.
‘Why We Must Shun Owen’s Plan’ (letter). Daily Telegraph, 22 January 1994, p. 14.
‘Call for Concerted Action on Bosnia’ (letter). The Times, 10 February 1994, p. 17.
‘After Its Humiliation at Gorazde, the United Nations Could Still Salvage a Little Credibility’ (letter). Independent, 19 April 1994, p. 15.
Review of B. Fontana (ed.), The Invention of the Modern Republic. Political Studies 42.4 (December 1994): 763.
‘Singular Praise for a Pluralist’, review of J. Gray, Isaiah Berlin. Times Higher Education Supplement, 3 March 1995, p. 22.
Review of Y. Glaziou, Hobbes en France au XVIIIe siècle. History of European Ideas 21.3 (May 1995): 473–75.
‘In Bosnia, the West Blunders On’ (letter). New York Times, 1 June 1995, p. 24.
‘Appeasers of Bosnia Genocide’ (letter). Independent, 16 August 1995, p. 14.
‘The Three Steps to Figure Out a Salary’ (letter). Cambridge Evening News, 21 August 1995, p. 6.
Review of C. Galipeau, Isaiah Berlin’s Liberalism. Political Studies 43.3 (September 1995): 533–34.
‘Belated Response to Bosnia Crisis’ (letter). The Times, 5 September 1995, p. 15.
‘Voltaire “Free Speech” Quote was Invented’ (letter). Cambridge Evening News 5 September 1995, p. 15.
‘Arguments for a Deeper Shade of Green’, review of R. Sylvan and D. Bennett, The Greening of Ethics; R. Elliot (ed.), Environmental Ethics; and F. Ferré and P. Hartel (eds.), Ethics and Environmental Policy. Times Literary Supplement, 8 September 1995, p. 9.
‘Music and the Moral Voice’, review of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ecrits sur la musique, la langue et le théâtre, vol. 5 of B. Gagnebin, M. Raymond et al. (eds.), Oeuvres complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade and of M. O’Dea, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Music, Illusion and Desire. Times Literary Supplement, 3 May 1996, pp. 8–9.
‘Jews, Arabs and Stolen Nazi Gold’ (letter). Independent, 14 September 1996, p. 15.
‘Laying the Enlightenment to Rest’, review of J. Gray, Enlightenment’s Wake. Government and Opposition 32.1 (Winter 1997): 140–45.
Review of W. Sewell, A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbé Sieyès and What is the Third Estate? Contemporary Sociology 26.2 (March 1997): 240–41.
‘Tatton Triumph for Rousseau’ (letter). Independent, 6 May 1997, p. 10.
Review of N. Waszek, The Scottish Enlightenment and Hegel’s Account of ‘Civil Society’. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 35 (Spring–Summer 1997): 90–91.
‘Balkan Ethics’ (letter). Independent, 22 September 1998, p. 2.
‘A Modern Candide’, review of M. Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin: A Life and G. Dalos, The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin. Times Literary Supplement, 18 December 1998, pp. 7–8.
Catalogue of the Library of John Plamenatz. London: Quaritch, 2006.