Jean-Jacques Rousseau the writer-philosopher was a practicing musician and theorist for years before publication of his first Discourse, but scholars have neglected these fertile, inexhaustible ideas because they were either unavailable in a critical edition or viewed as standing outside the aegis of his system of thought. This graceful translation remedies both those failings by bringing together the Essay with a comprehensive selection of the musical writings. Many of the latter are responses to authors like Rameau, Grimm, and Raynal, and a unique feature of this edition is the inclusion of writings by these authors to help establish the historical and ideological context of Rousseau's writings and the intellectual exchanges of which they are a part.
- ISBN10 0874517079
- ISBN13 9780874517071
- Publish Date 1 June 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University Press of New England
- Imprint Dartmouth College Press
- Edition Trans. from the French ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 624
- Language English