Socializing Around 'The Social Contract'.
In: New York Times, Jg. 161 (2012-07-05), Heft 55823, S. 4-4
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ERMENONVILLE, France-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau may have been born in Switzerland (Geneva in fact, in 1712) and not in France. But that tiny geographic detail has not kept the citizens of the Oise, the region north of Paris where Rousseau lived briefly and died, from celebrating the philosopher all year as a national hero. ''Rousseaumania,'' as the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche called the celebration, includes picnics, conferences, publications, debates, plays, street theater, films, documentaries, concerts and dinners to pay tribute to the author of ''The Social Contract,'' which argues for a system of government and law based on the will of all citizens and remains one of the most influential works of Western political philosophy. Rousseau's house in the town of Montmorency, where he lived from 1757 to 1762, has reopened as a museum this month after a major renovation. Fourteen restaurants in the Oise have created special Rousseau-inspired menus. An authoritative version of Rousseau's complete works has been published in more than 15,000 pages. (The cheap version costs 720 Euros, the expensive one 1920). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Socializing Around 'The Social Contract'.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Sciolino, Elaine |
Zeitschrift: | New York Times, Jg. 161 (2012-07-05), Heft 55823, S. 4-4 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2012 |
Medientyp: | Zeitungsartikel |
ISSN: | 0362-4331 (print) |
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