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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.
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