Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth.(Book Review)

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Date: 20030922
Author:Hulliung, Mark

Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth by Christopher Kelly. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. 182 pages.

Vitam impendere vero. Jean Jacques Rousseau dedicated his life to the quest for truth, and Christopher Kelly, it seems, has dedicated his life to the search for the truth about Rousseau. Professor Kelly, co-editor of the Collected Writings of Rousseau, has spent years working on the translation of Rousseau's works. He has also established a reputation as an interpreter of Rousseau's thought. In 1987 Kelly published Rousseau's Exemplary ...

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