9780713906080 - Jean-Jacques: Early Life and Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-54 von Cranston, Maurice (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 382pp, illustrated, slight browning, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper unevenly faded. ISBN: 0713906081.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0713906081.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0713906081.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Solid tight and square copy with no inscriptions. Knocked on corners and boards are a little faded with spotting on the page block.

cloth, dustjacket, 8vo 382 pp., 16 plates, 1 map first volume of monumental two-volume biography; very good condition (alomst unused).

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0713906081.

Zustand: Gut. Maps. 382 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Small abrasions on the dustjacket. Otherwise good and clean. - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben. Sonst gut und sauber. - An evil genius, a prophet at once of fascism and of communism, an enemy of reason and science. a mountebank, a psychotic anda freak. Such was Jean-Jacques Rousseaus reputation until his rehabilitation after the war by modern scholarship. Now that his works have at last been published and interpreted in a more disciplined manner, the way has become clear for Professor Cranston, himself a political theorist of international standing, to unravel the paradoxes of Rousseau s thought by a detailed investigation of his life. The result is a masterpiece of biography that reads like a novel, with Rousseau as its picaresque hero, an adventurer who almost miraculously transformed himself into a great philosopher. The first volume of this monumental two-volume biography traces the evolution of Rousseaus attitudes through the influence of that unique Calvinist city- state, Geneva, his refuge in Catholic Savoy, his introduction to the new scientific ideology of the French Enlightenment by Mably, Condillac, Diderot and d Alembert; it follows his erratic career through Switzerland, France and Italy, his liaison with the laundrymaid, Thérèse, his succession of frustrating office jobs and his efforts to educate himself through reading and solitary reflection; and it describes how forty years of poverty and humiliation suddenly came to an end in a blaze of fame with the publication of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences and the performance of his opera Le Devin du Village. Professor Cranston then explores the evolution of Rousseau s ideas as a social thinker, which came to fruition in his most revolutionary work, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and he concludes with an account of Rousseaus attempt to withdraw from the bright life of a celebrity in the Paris salons and return to the simple austerity of his native Geneva, a doomed endeavour to recover lost innocence, saved only by his discovery of the Deity in the spectacular landscape of the Alps. ISBN 9780713906080 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 720 Original cloth with dustjacket. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Zustand: Very good.