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... Rousseau to some Royalist society in Paris with- out having read his works ; yet even so , with all the large licence of abuse that his ignorance allowed him ... Rousseau's mind was central ; it never wandered ROUSSEAU from Heaven and Earth.
... Rousseau to some Royalist society in Paris with- out having read his works ; yet even so , with all the large licence of abuse that his ignorance allowed him ... Rousseau's mind was central ; it never wandered ROUSSEAU from Heaven and Earth.
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... Rousseau should be bothered , as they are , by this experience of Rousseau . Generally speaking , they can make nothing of it . What was it ( they wonder ) that Rousseau then saw and understood ? And they incline to the belief that it ...
... Rousseau should be bothered , as they are , by this experience of Rousseau . Generally speaking , they can make nothing of it . What was it ( they wonder ) that Rousseau then saw and understood ? And they incline to the belief that it ...
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... Rousseau is now invoked or denounced as the prophet of the totalitarian state . Du Contrat Social is held to be its charter . And , characteristically in the case of Rousseau , it is not easy to demonstrate that the modern Fascist state ...
... Rousseau is now invoked or denounced as the prophet of the totalitarian state . Du Contrat Social is held to be its charter . And , characteristically in the case of Rousseau , it is not easy to demonstrate that the modern Fascist state ...
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THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM | 1 |
POETRY AND PROSE ΙΟ | 10 |
STENDHAL | 25 |
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