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Jean Starobinski is Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva. Blessings in Disguise and Largesse are among his works in English. A translation of his recent Action et réaction is to appear later this year. (May 2003)
Rousseau and Revolution
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution
by James Swenson
La Politique de la Terreur: Essai sur la violence révolutionnaire, 1789–1794
by Patrice Gueniffey
April 25, 2002 issue
Rousseau in the Revolution
Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution
by Carol Blum
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
edited by François Furet, edited by Mona Ozouf
La Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen
by Stéphane Rials
L'An I des droits de l'homme
by A de Baecque and L.M. Vovelle and W. Schmale
Les Déclarations des droits de l'homme et du citoyen
by Christine Fauré
The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, Volume II: The Political Culture of the Revolution
edited by Colin Lucas
La Révolution des droits de l'homme
by Marcel Gauchet
April 12, 1990 issue
Burying the Dead
The Architecture of Death: The Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth-Century Paris
by Richard A. Etlin
January 16, 1986 issue
Gazing at Death
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault, translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith
January 22, 1976 issue
The Dominant Doctor
Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy
by Owsei Temkin
June 26, 1975 issue
Rousseau & Modern Tyranny
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works, Vol. I: The Quest, 1712-1758
by Lester G. Crocker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works, Vol. II: The Prophetic Voice, 1758-1778
by Lester G. Crocker
November 29, 1973 issue
The Man Who Told Secrets
Diderot
by Arthur M. Wilson
Oeuvres Complètes
by D. Diderot, edited by Roger Lewinter
Diderot's Letters to Sophie Volland: A Selection
translated by Peter France
March 22, 1973 issue
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