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Title: Politics and the Arts: Letter to M.D. Alembert on the Theatre by Jean Jacques Rousseau, Allan Bloom ISBN: 0-8014-9071-5 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1968 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Summary: A counter-blast to the trumpets of elitism
Comment: In this work, Rousseau replied to an article in the great "Encyclopedie" penned by D'Alembert. The article concerned Rousseau's hometown -- Geneva, and D'Alembert was for the most part quite complimentary about that city. But he did quarrel with the absense of any theatre. He was surprised, he said, that "in a city where proper and correct theatre is forbidden, coarse and silly farces as contrary to good taste as to good morals are permitted."
Rousseau was right to see elitism in those words. The intellectuals of D'Alembert's crowd naturally thought that they could decide for everybody what it "proper and correct," what is "coarse." Rousseau was right, furthermore, to issue this counterblast.
I'm not an advocate of every sentiment here, but I think I get the general drift of Rousseau's contention about art, festivals, and the public good. And I believe he got the better of the argument.
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Title: Candide by Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet ISBN: 0486266893 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin, John Osbourne, John Osborne, George Steiner ISBN: 1859844138 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Rousseau: 'The Discourses' and Other Early Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Gourevitch, Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner ISBN: 0521424453 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Philosophy of History by Georg W. Hegel ISBN: 0486201120 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion (Oxford World's Classics) by David Hume, J. C. A. Gaskin ISBN: 0192838768 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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