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Letter to Beaumont, Letters Written from the Mountain, and Related Writings (Paperback, Trans. from the)
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Letter to Beaumont, Letters Written from the Mountain, and Related Writings (Paperback, Trans. from the)
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Published between 1762 and 1765, these writings are the last works
Rousseau wrote for publication during his lifetime. Responding in
each to the censorship and burning of Emile and Social Contract,
Rousseau airs his views on censorship, religion, and the relation
between theory and practice in politics. The Letter to Beaumont is
a response to a Pastoral Letter by Christophe de Beaumont,
Archbishop of Paris (also included in this volume), which attacks
the religious teaching in Emile. Rousseau's response concerns the
general theme of the relation between reason and revelation and
contains his most explicit and boldest discussions of the Christian
doctrines of creation, miracles, and original sin. In Letters
Written from the Mountain, a response to the political crisis in
Rousseau's homeland of Geneva caused by a dispute over the burning
of his works, Rousseau extends his discussion of Christianity and
shows how the political principles of the Social Contract can be
applied to a concrete constitutional crisis. One of his most
important statements on the relation between political philosophy
and political practice, it is accompanied by a fragmentary"History
of the Government of Geneva." Finally,"Vision of Peter of the
Mountain, Called the Seer" is a humorous response to a resident of
Motiers who had been inciting attacks on Rousseau during his exile
there. Taking the form of a scriptural account of a vision, it is
one of the rare examples of satire from Rousseau's pen and the only
work he published anonymously after his decision in the early 1750s
to put his name on all his published works. Within its satirical
form, the "Vision" contains Rousseau's last public reflections on
religious issues. Neither the Letter to Beaumont nor the Letters
Written from the Mountain has been translated into English since
defective translations that appeared shortly after their appearance
in French. These are the first translations of both the "History"
and the "Vision."
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