Jean Starobinski is Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva. Blessings in Disguise and Largesse are among his works in English. A translation of his recent Action et réaction is to appear later this year. (May 2003)
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A Letter from Jean-Jacques Rousseau
May 15, 2003
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Rousseau and Revolution
April 25, 2002
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution
by James Swenson
La Politique de la Terreur: Essai sur la violence révolutionnaire, 1789–1794 by Patrice Gueniffey
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‘Largesse’
May 28, 1998
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Rousseau in the Revolution
April 12, 1990
Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution by Carol Blum
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution edited by François Furet, edited by Mona Ozouf
La Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen by Stéphane Rials
L’An I des droits de l’homme by A de Baecque, by L.M. Vovelle, by W. Schmale
Les Déclarations des droits de l’homme et du citoyen by Christine Fauré
The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, Volume II: The Political Culture of the Revolution edited by Colin Lucas
La Révolution des droits de l’homme by Marcel Gauchet
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Burying the Dead
January 16, 1986
The Architecture of Death: The Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Richard A. Etlin
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The Flying University
January 24, 1980
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Gazing at Death
January 22, 1976
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault, translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith
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The Dominant Doctor
June 26, 1975
Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy by Owsei Temkin
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Rousseau & Modern Tyranny
November 29, 1973
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works, Vol. I: The Quest, 1712-1758 by Lester G. Crocker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works, Vol. II: The Prophetic Voice, 1758-1778 by Lester G. Crocker
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The Man Who Told Secrets
March 22, 1973
Diderot by Arthur M. Wilson
Oeuvres Complètes by D. Diderot, edited by Roger Lewinter
Diderot’s Letters to Sophie Volland: A Selection translated by Peter France