of his writings still in progress (Geneva and Paris, 1977- ), under the general supervision of Michel Launay and dedicated colleagues at the University of Nice and elsewhere. Scholars who consult the two volumes thus far published of the

Bibliography of the writings of Rousseau to 1800

by Jo-Ann McEachern (Oxford, 1989 and 1993) will be richly rewarded.

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Still the most authoritative interpretation of Rousseau’s political works in their historical context is Robert Derathé’s

Rousseau et la science politique de son temps (2nd edn, Paris, 1970), which offers a richly detailed account of the jurisprudential background to his philosophy. Masters, in

The Political Philosophy of Rousseau (Princeton, NJ, 1968), provides one of the best-documented and most closely argued readings of Rousseau’s political and educational writings, in so far as they form parts of a systematic doctrine which unfolds from the first

Discours , while in

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Écrivain politique (1712-1762) (Cannes and Grenoble, 1971), Launay, writing from an essentially Marxian perspective, also shows a profound command of major and minor texts alike. Grace Roosevelt’s

Reading Rousseau in the Nuclear Age (Philadelphia, 1990) offers a fresh assessment of Rousseau’s reflections on war and international relations within the wider context of his political and educational writings.

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