The “Rousseau Association/Association Rousseau”:http://www.rousseauassociation.org/default.htm , which is a very fine bunch of scholars and a nice crowd of human beings, has “a new website”:http://www.rousseauassociation.org/default.htm thanks to Zev Trachtenberg at the University of Oklahoma. It is still in development but when finished it should be an important resource and marks a distinct improvement on the last version. Visitors can dowload works by Rousseau, follow links to other sites of interest, browse a selection of images and even “listen to some of the music”:http://www.rousseauassociation.org/aboutRousseau/musicalWorks.htm Jean-Jacques composed. (Full disclosure, I’m currently VP of the Association.)
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Matt 08.02.05 at 11:22 am
The site looks good. Do you think the texts are of high enough quality translation that they could be recommended to students to use rather than a book if they wanted (to save money or the like)?
josh 08.03.05 at 7:39 pm
Cool! I’ve always wanted to hear some of Jean-Jacques’s musical works, but hadn’t had much luck tracking them down. It’s nice to find that they conform to more or less what I’d expect him to compose based on my impressions of his personality. Though I must say, I think he was a better political thinker than composer.
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