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SHORT LIST OF BOOKS NECESSARY FOR THE STUDY OF ROUSSEAU’S POLITICAL WRITINGS AND LIFE - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau vol. 1 [1915]Edition used:The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, ed. from the original manuscripts and authentic editions, with introductions and notes by C. E. Vaughan. (Cambridge University Press, 1915). In 2 vols. Vol. 1.
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SHORT LIST OF BOOKS NECESSARY FOR THE STUDY OF ROUSSEAU’S POLITICAL WRITINGS AND LIFEI. First editions of the works published in Rousseau’S lifetime: Discours sur l'inégalité: Rey, Amsterdam, 8vo, 1755. Économie politique: in Vol. V. of Encyclopédie, Paris, Fol. 1755. Extrait de la Paix perpétuelle: Amsterdam, 8vo, 1761. Émile: Néaulme, Amsterdam (and Duchesne, Paris), 4 vols. 8vo, 1762. Contrat social: Rey, Amsterdam, 8vo, 1762. Lettres écrites de la Montagne: Rey, Amsterdam, 8vo, 1764. II. Collected editions: Collection complète des Œuvres de J.-J. Rousseau (ed. du Peyrou, and serving as the first edition of Jugement sur la Paix perpétuelle, Extrait de la Polysynodie, Jugement sur la Polysynodie, Considérations sur le Gouvernement de Pologne, as well as of the Confessions, Dialogues II, III, and the Rêveries): 17 vols., Geneva, 4to, 1782 sqq.; 33 vols. 8vo, 1782–4; 33 vols. 12mo, 1782–4. Œuvres de J.-J. Rousseau (Bozerian and Didot aîné; edited by Naigeon, Fayolle and Bancarel): 25 vols., Paris, 12mo, 1801. [[These are the only editions which can claim any authority; and it is very doubtful whether the variations in Bozerian’S edition are anything more than a capricious corruption of the text. In du Peyrou’S Quarto edition, Vol. I. contains the Discours sur l'inégalité, Lettre à M. Philopolis, Économie politique, Contrat social, and Gouvernement de Pologne; Vol. VI., Lettres de la Montagne; Vol. XII., the two treatises on La paix perpétuelle and the two on La Polysynodie, and the Letters to Voltaire, Usteri (July 15, 1763), Mirabeau and Buttafuoco. The Dedication (Vol. I.) contains a passionate vindication of Rousseau against the calumnies of Diderot.] III. Subsequent publications of Texts: Streckeisen-Moultou, Œuvres et Correspondance inédites de J.-J. Rousseau (Projet pour la Corse and Fragments): Michel Lévy, Paris, 8vo, 1861. Streckeisen-Moultou, Rousseau, ses amis et ses ennemis (Correspondence): Michel Lévy, 2 vols., Paris, 8vo, 1865. Dreyfus-Brisac, Du Contrat social (Final version, earlier version, L'état de guerre, and other Fragments): Alcan, Paris, 1896. Windenberger, La République confédérative des petits États (L'état de guerre and other Fragments; Contrat social, I. ii. (earlier version)). Paris, 8vo, 1900. [I have been unable to get sight of M. Alexeieff’S edition of Contrat social (earlier version), Moscow, 1887.] IV. Other Works: Rousseau, Correspondance (Ed. Hachette, Vols. X.–XII.). Abbé de Saint-Pierre, La paix perpétuelle, 2 vols. 8vo, 1712; Discours sur la Polysynodie, Amsterdam, 12mo, 1719. Mably, Du Gouvernement et des lois de la Pologne (1770–1), in Œuvres, Vol. VIII., Paris, 8vo, 1797. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Études de la Nature (containing many reminiscences of Rousseau), 3 vols., Paris, 12mo, 1784. Sébastien Mercier, De J.-J. Rousseau considéré comme l'un des premiers auteurs de la Révolution, 2 vols., Paris, 8vo, 1791. d'Escherny, comte de, Éloge de J.-J. Rousseau (in Philosophie de Politique, 2 vols., Paris, 8vo, 1796); and Mélanges (containing reminiscences of Rousseau), 3 vols., Paris, 12mo, 1811. [Éloge written in 1789.] Corancez, Journal de Paris, Vol. XLII. (Prairial 19 and 21, An vi.), Paris, 4to, 1798. [The Biographie générale states that Corancez was married to a daughter of Romilly, Rousseau’S friend, a Genevan watchmaker settled at Paris; also that Corancez first published his reminiscences of Rousseau in 1778 (only 50 copies), and again in an appendix to his volume of poems (1790). In the British Museum is an English translation of his articles in the Journal de Paris: Anecdotes of the last twelve years of the life of J.-J. Rousseau, London, 12mo, 1798.[ Dussaulx, De mes rapports avec J.-J. Rousseau, Paris, 8vo, 1798. Marmontel, Mémoires, 4 vols., Paris, 8vo, 1804. Grimm, Correspondance littéraire (1753–90), 17 vols., Paris, 8vo, 1813 (another edition, by Tourneux, 16 vols., Paris, 8vo, 1877–82). Mme d'Épinay, Mémoires et correspondance, 3 vols., Paris, 8vo, 1818. Musset-Pathay, Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de J.-J. Rousseau, 2 vols., Paris, 8vo, 1821. Bosscha, Lettres inédites de Jean Jacques Rousseau à Marc Michel Rey, Amsterdam, 8vo, 1858. Lord Morley, Rousseau, 2 vols., London, 8vo, 1873. T. H. Green, Works, Vol. II., London, 8vo, 1886. Höffding, J.-J. Rousseau og hans Filosofi, Copenhagen, 8vo, 1896. Bosanquet, The philosophical theory of the State, London, 8vo, 1899. Mrs Macdonald, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a new Criticism, 2 vols., London, Chapman and Hall, 8vo, 1906. Vallette, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Genevois, Geneva and Paris, 8vo, 1911. Annales de la société J.-J. Rousseau, Geneva, 8vo, 1905 sqq. N.B. In referring to works of Rousseau, other than those included in this edition, I have always used Hachette’S edition in 13 vols., Paris, 8vo, 1905; as being probably the most generally accessible. The text, however, is far from correct. |

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