Rousseau and Revolution

Introduction 13
he lived and worked continues to reverberate and generate even today.
While a scholarly engagement with Rousseau’s thinking is interesting in
itself, and while there is no need to succumb to the present demand for everfaster
utilization of everything for immediate and easy consumption, we do
want to emphasize what all the articles show in practice: that Rousseau is a
privileged point of intersection between philosophical thought and political
action.
Note
1 Throughout the book, where nothing else is stated, translations are the author’s.