Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cornell University Press, 1968 - Literary Criticism - 153 pages

This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing some of the most sensitive literary criticism ever written (especially of Molière), the book is an excellent introduction to the principles of classical political thought. It demonstrates the paradoxes of Rousseau's thought and clearly displays the temperament that led him to repudiate the hopes of the Enlightenment.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre; Agora editions; Agora paperback editions; Agora paperback editions, Cornell paperbacks; Cornell paperback, CP-71. An Agora paperback edition; Cornell paperbacks
• Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1968
• ISBN: 0801490715, 9780801490712
• Length: 153 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / French; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Philosophy / Individual Philosophers; Philosophy / Political; Political Science / General