Engaging with Rousseau

Avi Lifschitz is Senior Lecturer in European Intellectual History at University College London (UCL). He is the author of Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century (2012) and co-editor of Epicurus in the Enlightenment (2009). Lifschitz has also edited a special issue of History of Political Thought on Rousseau and classical antiquity. Research fellowships have included the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the University of Göttingen, and the Clark Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journal German History and the database e-Enlightenment.

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• 1. 'A lover of peace more than liberty'? The Genevan rejection of Rousseau's politics Richard Whatmore; 2. Adrastus versus Diogenes: Frederick the Great and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on self-love Avi Lifschitz; 3. Sources of evil or seeds of the good? Rousseau and Kant on needs, the arts and the sciences Alexander Schmidt; 4. Rousseau and French liberalism, 1789–1870 Jeremy Jennings; 5. Rousseau and the redistributive republic: nineteenth-century French interpretations Jean-Fabien Spitz; 6. Echoes of the social contract in Central and Eastern Europe, 1770–1825 Monika Baár; 7. Reading Rousseau in Spanish America during the Wars of Independence (1808–26) Nicola Miller; 8. 'The porch to a collectivism as absolute as the mind of man has ever conceived': Rousseau scholarship in Britain from the Great War to the Cold War Christopher Brooke; 9. Rousseau at Harvard: John Rawls and Judith Shklar on realistic utopia Céline Spector; 10. Rousseau's dilemma Philip Pettit; 11. The depths of recognition: the legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Axel Honneth; Bibliography; Index.