Rousseau and Revolution

Acknowledgements
This book grew out of the presentations and engaged discussions at the
conference ‘Rousseau and Revolution’ that the editors hosted at the University
of Aarhus, Denmark, in March 13–15, 2009. We are very grateful for
the scholarly and warm atmosphere at the conference, an atmosphere
hopefully refl ected in the articles. From the conference several presentations
were selected and others were solicited from outside.
We would like to thank all the participants at the conference, presenters
and others, for their contributions as well as the authors in this book for
entrusting two distant Northerners to collect and publish their articles.
We would also like to thank Thorbjørn Friis and Eva Jørgensen for all
their help setting everything up and ensuring the free fl ow of coffee, food
and lively discussions. Thanks are also due to the Institute of Philosophy
and the History of Ideas as well as the Danish Research School for Philosophy,
the History of Ideas and the History of Science as well as the Research
Focus Globalization at the University of Aarhus for providing the necessary
funds for the conference.
Finally we would like to thank Continuum for a positive engagement with
this book from when it was not more than an email with a title until its fi nal
materialization as a book.
Aarhus, September 2010
Holger Ross Lauritsen and Mikkel Thorup