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Article: Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2004
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Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth. By CHRISTOPHER KELLY. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. x+216 pp. $19. ISBN 0-226-43024-3.
Always one to shuncat-and-mouse games with the censors, Rousseau boldly displayed his name in the title of his published works. This fact, as Christopher Kelly convincingly argues, proves central to understanding the relation of Rousseau's writings to his political philosophy.
Kelly's nimbly argued and welcome offering proposes a fundamental distinction between the public nature of authorship and the private sphere of philosophical speculation. Authors, for Rousseau, ought only to ...