Forms of Amusement: Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert and Julie

<p>Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher who cared about nonphilosophers. He intervened in circumstances where he saw nonphilosophers in danger, such as with the Lettre à d’Alembert , and he wrote enchanting stories for them, such as Julie . His overarching concern in these books was what he perceived as a loss of virtue or virtue undermined by contemporary trends in the theater and in the literary world. His writings were radical in their originality: the Lettre à d’Alembert condemned popular spectacles and Julie departed from the norm for novels. Rousseau denounced other philosophers for irresponsibility among nonphilosophers in relation to forms of amusement and sought to exemplify appropriate action with his own pen.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Political Science, PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Social Science, Politics, and Evaluation

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Shunk, Trevor Mark

Contributors dc:contributor

• Mark Blitz
• Susan McWilliams

• Political Science

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/562

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oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1584