What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Place in the Western Political Tradition? This conference will commemorate the tercentenary of Rousseau’s birth and the 250th anniversary of two of his most important writings on politics and morals: On the Social Contract and Emile, both originally published in 1762. Internationally renowned scholars from the US and Europe will discuss his enduring stature and legacy through a comparison with other great thinkers including Machiavelli, Montaigne, Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke and Karl Marx. Join us for a series of public talks on the great thinkers, to be followed by a second day of talks at New York University on November 3.

Benjamin R. Barber
David Bates
Bryan Garsten
Jonathan Israel
Anthony La Vopa
James Miller
Helena Rosenblatt
Jerrold Seigel
David Sorkin
Barbara Taylor
Richard Tuck
Maurizio Viroli


PROGRAM
November 2, 2012:

9:15 Helena Rosenblatt (Graduate Center, CUNY) Welcome

9:30-11:00
Maurizio Viroli (Princeton), Rousseau and Machiavelli
James Miller (New School), Rousseau and Montaigne
Richard Tuck (Harvard), Rousseau and Hobbes

11:15-12:30
Bryan Garsten (Yale), Rousseau and Rameau
David Sorkin (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Rousseau and Mendelssohn

12:30-2:00: lunch break

2:00-3:15
Anthony LaVopa (North Carolina State University), Rousseau and A.L. Thomas
Barbara Taylor (University of East London), Rousseau and Wollstonecraft

3:30-4:45
Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study), Rousseau and the philosophes
Benjamin Barber (The Graduate Center), Rousseau and Burke

5:00-6:15
Jerrold Seigel (NYU), Rousseau and Marx
David Bates (Berkeley), Rousseau and Schmitt

For a full schedule of this 2-day Rousseau Conference, including Saturday November 3rd at New York University for "Rousseau Nature and Culture" please click here

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