Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment

Acknowledgments

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for this project in its earliest stages, which helped me to get the project off the ground. The College of the Holy Cross generously provided research leaves that gave me time to think, write, and revise. Portions of some of the chapters were originally published elsewhere. Most of chapter 3 appeared as “The Utility of Ink: Rousseau and Robinson Crusoe,” Review of Politics 64 (Winter 2002): 121–49. A much earlier version of chapter 6 was published as “Reconsidering the Role of Sophie in Rousseau’s Emile,” Polity 30 (June 1998): 607–26. Chapter 8 draws material from two previously published articles, “Attending to Time and Place in Rousseau’s Legislative Art,” Review of Politics 74 (Summer 2012): 421–41, and “Realism, Rhetoric, and the Possibility of Reform in Rousseau’s Considerations on the Government of Poland,” Polity 42 (July 2010): 377–97. I would like to thank all of the original publishers for permission to reprint. Over the years, I have benefited enormously from discussing Rousseau, both informally and at conferences, with many friends and colleagues, including Jonathan Badger, William Baumgarth, Ronna Burger, Michael Davis, Christopher Dustin, Herma Gjinko, Pamela Jensen, Paul Kirkland, Joseph Knippenberg, David Nichols, John Scott, and Stephen Thomas. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Mary Nichols and David Schaefer, who read the entire manuscript with meticulous care and provided many valuable suggestions . I would also like to thank the Penn State Press reviewers for their helpful feedback; I feel fortunate to have had such attentive and insightful readers. It has also been a pleasure to work with Kendra Boileau and Laura Reed-Morrisson at Penn State Press. I would also like to thank Daniel McMurtry for his assistance with manuscript formatting, and Suzanne Wolk for her excellent copyediting . Finally, I am grateful to my colleagues and students at the College of the Holy Cross for their collegiality and ongoing encouragement. I have lived with this book for quite some time, and by extension so has my family. I would like to thank my amazing husband, Charles Planck, as well as my daughters, Amanda, Isabel, and Lydia, who have been patient and generous Acknowledgments Acknowledgments M vii over the years in sharing their mother’s attention with this mysterious person named Rousseau. I would also like to thank my parents, Ernesto and Darci Schaeffer, for their love and unwavering support. I dedicate this book to the memory of my father, a self-described philosopher of cars and mechanic of people whose distinctive perspective on the world gave me a taste for philosophical thinking before I knew what it was. ...