Rousseau (London and New York, 1999). In French, the most remarkable treatments of his thought are probably Bronisław Baczko’s

Rousseau: Solitude et communauté , originally published in Polish (Paris 1974), Pierre Burgelin’s

La Philosophie de l’existence de J. J. Rousseau (2nd edn, Paris, 1973), and Starobinski’s classic study, dating from 1957, now available in English,

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction (Chicago, 1988), which is dazzling in its images of Rousseau’s inner experience and metaphors of opaque reflection.

John Hope Mason, in

The Indispensable Rousseau (London, 1979), offers English readers a skilful single-volume commentary, interwoven with selections from almost all of Rousseau’s major writings, while N. J. H. Dent, in

A Rousseau Dictionary (Oxford, 1992), provides a well-conceived thematic treatment of Rousseau’s works, with useful pointers in each case to the pertinent secondary literature. The massively authoritative

Dictionnaire de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Paris, 1996), published under the direction of Trousson and Frédéric Eigeldinger, is comprised of 700 entries by almost one hundred authors, addressed to writings, subjects, places, and persons. The Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau, based in Geneva, has since 1905 produced a journal of remarkable erudition, the

Annales , and for those who find that they can never have enough of Rousseau, there is a computer-generated

Collection des index et concordances

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