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Article: Jean-Jacques Rousseau juge par ses contemporains: Du 'Discours sur les sciences et les arts' aux 'Confessions'.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2001
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau juge par ses contemporains. Du 'Discours sur les sciences et les arts' aux 'Confessions'. By RAYMOND TROUSSON. Paris: Champion. 2000. 635 pp. 600 F.
From the beginning Rousseau was a phenomenon. His first philosophical work, the Discours sur les sciences et les arts, prompted over fifty refutations. His Lettre sur la musique francaise roused the Opera to hang him in effigy. The Discours sur l'inegalite was widely decried. The Lettre a d'Alembert made the 'philosophes' henceforth his enemies, but did not please Geneva either. La Nouvelle Heloise was a huge success with the public, despite the ambivalence of the literati. Du contrat social was ...