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Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust.

Enlightenment. --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, --- Alasdair MacIntyre. --- Correspondance complte de Rousseau. --- Counter-Enlightenment. --- Die Philosophie der Aufklrung. --- Enlightenment Project. --- Ernst Cassirer. --- European philosophy. --- French Revolution. --- Grand Tour. --- Hegel. --- Isaiah Berlin. --- Jacques Rousseau. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Jean-Philippe Rameau. --- Karl Marx. --- Lettre sur la musique franoise. --- Pierre-Paul Plan. --- Pufendorf. --- Ralph Leigh. --- Robert Wokler. --- Rousseau. --- Theodore Besterman. --- Thophile Dufour. --- Voltaire. --- anthropological theory. --- apes. --- civilization. --- conceptual history. --- cosmopolitanism. --- culture. --- eighteenth-century philosophy. --- equality. --- freedom. --- human race. --- human sciences. --- humanity. --- humankind. --- imagination. --- interpretation. --- jurisprudence. --- language. --- liberalism. --- liberaty. --- liberty. --- manuscripts. --- modernity. --- moral values. --- music. --- musical philosophy. --- nation-state. --- natural goodness. --- natural law. --- philosophers. --- philosophy of history. --- physical evolution. --- pluralism. --- political doctrines. --- political philosophy. --- political theory. --- political thought. --- politics. --- property. --- publishing. --- reason. --- reverie. --- self-realization. --- social corruption. --- social evolution. --- social sciences. --- totalitarianism. --- travel. --- travelers. --- writing.