The concern to find a way of preserving human freedom in a world of increasingly dependence for the satisfaction of their needs dominates work. Own firmly negative view saw the post-hoc rationalizers of self-interest, apologists for various forms of tyranny, as playing a role in the modern alienation from natural impulse of humanity to compassion. This important figure in the history contributed to political and moral psychology and influenced later thinkers. Swiss philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau held that society usually corrupts the essentially good individual his works include The Social Contract and Émile (both 1762). As the characters negotiate a complex maze of passion and virtue, their purity of soul and honest morality reveal, as Rousseau writes in his preface, "the subtleties of heart of which this work is full." A comprehensive introduction and careful annotations make this novel accessible to contemporary readers, both as an embodiment of Rousseau's philosophy and as a portrayal of the tension and power inherent in domestic life. The complex tones of this work made it a commercial success and a continental sensation when it first appeared in 1761, and its embodiment of Rousseau's system of thought, in which feelings and intellect are intertwined, redefined the function and form of fiction for decades. Preux, a one-time lover who re-enters Julie's life at the invitation of her unsuspecting husband, M. The story follows the fates and smoldering passions of Julie d'Etange and St. In it, Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm. Rousseau's great epistolary novel, Julie, or the New Heloise, has been virtually unavailable in English since 1810. An elegant translation of one of the most popular novels of its time.
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