The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754-1762

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In this second volume of the unparalleled exposition of Rousseaus life and works Cranston completes and corrects the story told in Rousseaus Confessions and offers a vivid entirely new history of his most eventful and productive years. "Luckily for us Maurice Cranstons The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754-1762 has managed to craft a highly detailed account of eight key years of Rousseaus life in such a way that we can both understand and even on occasion sympathize."Olivier Bernier Wall Street Journal Maurice Cranston (1920-1993) a distinguished scholar and recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of John Locke was professor of political science at the London School of Economics. His numerous books include The Romantic Movement and Philosophers and Pamphleteers and translations of Rousseaus The Social Contract and Discourse on the Origins of Inequality.