Sunday, 2 November 2025

What remains of Rousseau?

The Yale University website publishes an article by Joanna Stalnaker, Professor of French at Columbia University, on the legacy of Rousseau (dated 29th October 2025)

What Remains of Rousseau? - Yale University Press

To investigate:  

In 1766-67 the exiled Rousseau stayed at Wootton Hall in Staffordshire.

BBC - Stoke & Staffordshire - History - Wooton's secret history

Dr Stephen Leach, 2016, 'Rousseau in Wootton', Keele University Philosophy Blog: https://philosophyk.wordpress.com/kosak/ 
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Rousseau in England, Stephen Leach makes available two texts: his own “Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Staffordshire” and “Rousseau in Wootton“, his co-translation together with Malcolm Crook from L.-J. Courtois’s Le Séjour de Jean-Jacques Rousseau en Angleterre (1910). Texts (including several pictures) can be downloaded from the respective links above. 


Photos of Rousseau's Cave at Wootton by Chris Bertram on Flickr

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