These two thinkers confront the issues surrounding public support for the arts through d'Alembert's original proposal, Rousseau's attack, and the first English translation of d'Alembert's response as well as correspondence relating to the ...

A novel in which Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm

A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.

In this volume Christopher Kelly presents Allan Bloom’s translation, newly edited and cross-referenced to match the series.