Annals of Science,

10 (1954), remains the touchstone for all serious students. Perhaps the most remarkable and meticulous treatments of Rousseau’s Swiss inheritance, preoccupations, and anxieties are those of F. Eigeldinger’s '

Des pierres dans mon jardin’: Les années neuchâteloises de J. J. Rousseau et la crise de 1765 (Geneva, 1992); François Jost’s

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Suisse: Étude sur sa personnalité et sa pensée (2 vols, Fribourg, 1961); and Helena Rosenblatt’s

Rousseau and Geneva (Cambridge, 1997).

Yves Touchefeu’s

L’Antiquité et le christianisme dans la pensée de Rousseau (Oxford, 1999) provides a finely balanced account of Rousseau’s interpretation of classical and Christian sources. For Rousseau’s debt to Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli’s

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-ordered Society’ (Cambridge, 1988) is particularly helpful, as is the treatment of his confrontation of Hobbes in Howard Cell’s and James MacAdam’s

Rousseau’s Response to Hobbes (Berne, 1988). I have assessed his appreciation of Pufendorf in my 'Rousseau’s Pufendorf: Natural Law and the Foundations of Commercial Society’,

History Of Political Thought,

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