CONTENTS

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Foreword: Bryan Garsten

Introduction: Christopher Brooke

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations Used in Citations of Rousseau’s Work

1.   Perfectible Apes in Decadent Cultures: Rousseau’s Anthropology Revisited

2.   Rites of Passage and the Grand Tour: Discovering, Imagining and Inventing European Civilization in the Age of Enlightenment

3.   Rousseau on Rameau and Revolution

4.   Vagabond Reverie

5.   The Enlightenment Hostilities of Voltaire and Rousseau

6.   Rousseau’s Pufendorf: Natural Law and the Foundations of Commercial Society

7.   Rousseau’s Reading of the Book of Genesis and the Theology of Commercial Society

8.   The Manuscript Authority of Political Thoughts

9.   Preparing the Definitive Edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau

10. Rousseau’s Two Concepts of Liberty

11. The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity

12. Rousseau and Marx

13. Ernst Cassirer’s Enlightenment: An Exchange with Bruce Mazlish

14. Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment

15. Projecting the Enlightenment

Notes

Bibliography of the Published Work of Robert Wokler

Index