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The Plan for Perpetual Peace, On the Government of Poland, and Other Writings on History and Politics
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99The Collected Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Volume 11. more...
The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pleiade edition. more...
Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 69.99Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now. more...
Letters on England
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.95Letters on England gathers together Voltaire's essays about his time in England between 1726 and 1728. Comparable to Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America , Voltaire looks at English culture as an outsider, giving its culture, society and governing institutions a favorable comparison to their French counterparts. more...
Friedensschriften
Felix Meiner Verlag 2009; US$ 35.77Hauptbeschreibung Jean Jacques Rousseaus Schriften zur Stiftung eines fortdauernden Friedens unter den europäischen Völkern, der "Extrait du Projet de Paix Perpétuelle de Monsieur L'Abbé de Saint-Pierre" und der "Jugement sur la Paix Perpétuelle", haben eigenständige Bedeutung in der systematischen Entfaltung eines rechtsphilosophischen Themas, das... more...
Friedrich der Große und Jean-Jacques Rosseau - Eine verfehlte Beziehung und die Folgen
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012; US$ 27.18Hauptbeschreibung Im Jahre 2012 jähren sich die Geburtstage von Friedrich dem Großen und Jean-Jacques Rousseau zum 300. Male. Die wenigsten wissen, dass es zwischen dem König, der ein Philosoph sein wollte, und dem Bürger von Genf und Apologeten der Volkssouveränität, der mit 50 Jahren Friedrichs Untertan wurde, kurzzeitig eine enge Beziehung gegeben... more...
The Confessions
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every book. ******************. more...
Diderot, Sénèque et Jean-Jacques
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 112.00Dans l Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron , dernier texte publié de son vivant, Diderot dresse un portrait élogieux du philosophe Sénèque, dont laction et les préceptes devraient être, selon son apologiste, lobjet dune égale admiration. Exploitant lopinion des uns, contestant... more...
Brief Lives: Marquis de Sade
Hesperus Press 2011; US$ 12.99As explicit in his prose as he was in his private life, the Marquis de Sade remains one of the most controversial writers of all time. This new biography, by the acclaimed translator and author David Carter, promises to shock as much as it informs. Arrested many times for sexual misdemeanors, the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, where... more...
The Fabliaux
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1987; US$ 98.00This is an interesting book that provides a sane analysis of the relation between form and meaning in the fabliaux. It will henceforth be standard reading for those dealing with what nevertheless remains one of the most problematic genres of Old French Literature for the modern scholar. Keith Busby, Speculum ? A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jan. 1990 more...









