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Abbreviations Ihave used a dual system of notes. All quotations from Rousseau are followed in the text by the appropriate reference to the English edition listed below, as well as to the corresponding reference to the Oeuvres complètes de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, edited by B. Gagnebin and M. Raymond, 5 vols. (Paris: Pléiade, 1959–1995). Where good English translations of other French texts exist, I have used them. Otherwise, I have translated from French editions. Rousseau C Confessions. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 5. Edited by C. Kelly, R. D. Masters, and P. Stillman. Translated by C. Kelly. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1995. CC Correspondance complètes de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Edited by R. A. Leigh. Geneva, Banbury, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1965–1998. CPC Constitutional Project for Corsica. In Rousseau: Political Writings. Translated by F. Watkins. New York: Thomas Nelson, 1953. DSA Discourse on the Sciences and Arts. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 2. Edited by C. Kelly and R. D. Masters. Translated by J. Bush, R. D. Masters, and C. Kelly. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1992. DI Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 3. Edited by C. Kelly and R. D. Masters. Translated by J. Bush, R. D. Masters, and C. Kelly. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1992. xiii DPE Discourse on Political Economy. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 3. Edited by C. Kelly and R. D. Masters. Translated by J. Bush, R. D. Masters, and C. Kelly. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1992. E Emile, or On Education. Translated by A. Bloom. New York: Basic Books, 1979. EOL Essay on the Origin of Languages. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 7. Edited and translated by J. T. Scott. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1998. Final Final Reply to Critics of the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 2. Edited by C. Kelly and R. D. Masters. Translated by J. Bush, R. D. Masters, and C. Kelly. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1992. GMS Geneva Manuscript. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 4. Edited by R. D. Masters and C. Kelly. Translated by J. Bush, R. D. Masters and C. Kelly. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1994. GP Considerations on the Government of Poland and on Its Projected Reformation. In Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings. Translated by V. Gourevitch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. JNH Julie, or the New Heloise. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 6. Edited by R. D. Masters and C. Kelly. Translated by P. Stewart and J. Vaché. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1997. LA Letter to d’Alembert on the Theater. In Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. d’Alembert on the Theater. Translated by A. Bloom. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1960. LB Letter to Beaumont. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 9. Edited by C. Kelly and E. Grace. Translated by C. Kelly and J. Bush. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2001. LF Letter to Franquières. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 8. Edited by C. Kelly. Translated by C. E. Butterworth, A. Book, T. Marshall. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2000. LV Letter to Voltaire (18 August 1756). In The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings. Translated by V. Gourevitch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv Abbreviations [3.15.147.215] Project MUSE (2024-04-19 16:07 GMT) LWM Letters Written From the Mountain. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 9. Edited by C. Kelly and E. Grace. Translated by C. Kelly and J. Bush. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2001. PF Political Fragments. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 4. Edited by R. D. Masters and C. Kelly. Translated by J. Bush, R. D. Masters, and C. Kelly. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1994. PN Preface to Narcissus. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 2. Edited by C. Kelly and R. D. Masters. Translated by J. Bush, R. D. Masters, and C. Kelly. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1992. RJJ Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques: Dialogues. In The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Vol. 1. Edited by R. D. Masters and...

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