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The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition ...

The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition ...

George Sebastian Rousseau

I muddled through, but when Landa saw how vacant my face was growing he followed on with a new, unrelated question: “Who was John Hill?” John Hill? John Hill who, I wondered. I was dead in my tracks: at least Pope's dogs were familiar ...
Encyclopedia of Education. 6. Race - State

Encyclopedia of Education. 6. Race - State

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... St. Martins. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1993. Emile (1762), trans. Barbara Foxley. London: Dent. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1988. The Social Contract ( 1762), trans. George Douglas Howard Cole. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus. Sevan G. Terzian ...
Rousseau et le spectacle

Rousseau et le spectacle

Jacques Berchtold

Le spectacle apparaît comme une notion centrale dans l’œuvre et la vie de Rousseau.
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The ...

The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The three works collected in The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau represent an important contribution to eighteenth-century political theory that has exerted an extensive influence on generations of thinkers, beginning with ...
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Vladimir Nabokov

I am fast approaching the crucial point of Sebastian'ssentimental life and as I consider the work already done in the pale light of the task still before me I feel singularly ill at ease. Have I given as fair an idea of Sebastian's life up to now as I had ...
Emile: Or, On Education

Emile: Or, On Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The first new English translation of Rousseau's eighteenth-century masterpiece on education in more than seventy years offers a prescription for the bringing up of autonomous, responsible, truly democratic human beings
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-Ordered Society'

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-Ordered Society'

Maurizio Viroli

This book studies a central but hitherto neglected aspect of Rousseau's political thought: the concept of social order and its implications for the ideal society which he envisages.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Political principles and institutions:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Political principles and institutions:

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John Plamenatz Source: M. Cranston and R. S. Peters (eds), Hobbes and Rousseau: A Collection of Critical Essays, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972, pp . 318-32. These words have shocked and puzzled many readers of the Social Contract.
The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The ...

The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The ...

Mads Qvortrup

Bertil Friden, in an insightful study, offers this interesting observation: The spot was not always marginal. In the enlightened salons of Paris during the decades just before the fall of the Ancien Regime, Rousseau's economic philosophy was ...
Sebastian

Sebastian

Lionel Webb

The black man known as Sebastian had been born free.
The solitary self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in exile and adversity

The solitary self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in exile and adversity

Maurice Cranston

As Boswell was on his way to Italy, t Rousseau gave him a letter of introduction111 to Alexandre Del eyre in Parma. In it he described Boswell as 'a young man with a troubled soul and black thoughts,' and he urged Deleyre to discuss moral ...
Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment

Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment

Marian Hobson

A collection of Marian Hobson's most important essays analysing key texts by Diderot and Rousseau.
The Cinema of Hal Hartley

The Cinema of Hal Hartley

Sebastian Manley

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Manley, Sebastian. The cinema of Hal Hartley/ by Sebastian Manley. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62356-432-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Hartley ...
Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau

John Plamenatz

This volume presents lucid and insightful lectures on three great figures from the history of political thought. It explores a range of themes in the political thought of Machiavelli Hobbes, and Rousseau.
The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity

The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity

Maurice Cranston

In this third and final volume of his masterly biography, Maurice Cranston traces the last tempestuous years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life.
Zones of Conflict in Africa: Theories and Cases

Zones of Conflict in Africa: Theories and Cases

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Contents Preface vii Part I: Background 1 Introduction 3 Ida Rousseau Mukenge 2 Theories of Conflict and Conflict Resolution 9 George Klay Kieh, Jr. 3 The Context of Civil Conflict in Africa 21 George Klay Kieh, Jr. 4 Civil Conflicts in Africa: ...
Sebastian: A Book about Bach

Sebastian: A Book about Bach

Jeanette Winter

Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.
Die Orgeln Johann Sebastian Bachs: ein Handbuch

Die Orgeln Johann Sebastian Bachs: ein Handbuch

Christoph Wolff

Registrant over orgler, som Johann Sebastian Bach har været i beøring med.
The New international encyclopædia

The New international encyclopædia

Frank Moore Colby

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Mr. W. W. Pierson. Dr. Talcott Williams. ROPE. ROSE . Mr. Herbert Treadwell Wade. Dr. Alfred Charles True. Dr. Edwin West Allen. ROSSETTI, D. G. Dr. George Kriehn. ROUSSEAU, J. J. Professor Adolphe Cohn.
Do What The F**k I Say

Do What The F**k I Say

Sebastian Melmoth II

A poem for every parent pushed to the edge of sanity by their unruly offspring, Sebastian Melmoth II’s Do What The Fuck I Say provides a uniquely irreverent perspective on the frustrations of parenthood, featuring 48 pages of dynamic ...
Fire

Fire

Sebastian Junger

The millions of readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm have long awaited this new work of non-fiction by Sebastian Junger. This time, we step off the deck of the Andrea Gail into an inferno.
Sebastian

Sebastian

Anne Bishop

But in dreams she calls to him: a woman who wants only to be safe and loved-a woman he hungers for while knowing he may destroy her.And an even more devastating destiny awaits him, for an ancient evil is stirring-and Sebastian's realm may ...
The Don Sebastian Vampire Chronicles

The Don Sebastian Vampire Chronicles

Les Daniels

The spanish inquisition: Europe is lit by the human bonfires of religious fanaticism, and blood-drinker Don Sebastian de Villanueva is sickened by the screams and suffering.
Annales de La Societe Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Annales de La Societe Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jacques Berchtold

Sommaire/ Table of contents: Jacques Berchtold et Michel Porret, "Editorial"; Berengere Baucher, "Quand le visage de Glaucos devient statue de Glaucus"; Jacques Berchtold, "La musique des murailles: Rousseau visiteur de Vauban"; Bruno ...

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