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Letter to D'Alembert and Writings for the Theater, Hardback Book

Letter to D'Alembert and Writings for the Theater Hardback

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In 1758, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert proposed the public establishment of a theater in Geneva-and Jean-Jacques Rousseau vigorously objected.

Their exchange, collected in volume ten of this acclaimed series, offers a classic debate over the political importance of the arts.

As these two leading figures of the Enlightenment argue about censorship, popular versus high culture, and the proper role of women in society, their dispute signals a declaration of war that divided the Enlightenment into contending factions.

These two thinkers confront the contentious issues surrounding public support for the arts through d'Alembert's original proposal, Rousseau's attack, and the first English translation of d'Alembert's response as well as correspondence relating to the exchange. The volume also contains Rousseau's own writings for the theater, including plays and libretti for operas, most of which have never been translated into English.

Among them, Le Devin du village was the most popular French opera of the eighteenth century while his late work Pygmalion is a profound meditation on the relation between an artist and his creation. This volume offers English readers a unique opportunity to appreciate Rousseau's writings for the theater as well as his attack on the theater as a public institution.

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