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Emile: Or On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Description for Emile: Or On Education
Paperback. A clear, readable, and highly engrossing translation of Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young. Translator(s): Bloom, A. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 33. Weight in Grams: 642.
Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile , Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magnificent translation of Plato's Republic has been universally hailed as a virtual rediscovery of that timeless text, again brings together the translator's gift for journeying between two languages and cultures and the philosopher's perception of the true meaning and significance of the issues being examined in the work. The result is a clear, readable, and highly engrossing text that at the same time offers a wholly new sense ... Read more
Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile , Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magnificent translation of Plato's Republic has been universally hailed as a virtual rediscovery of that timeless text, again brings together the translator's gift for journeying between two languages and cultures and the philosopher's perception of the true meaning and significance of the issues being examined in the work. The result is a clear, readable, and highly engrossing text that at the same time offers a wholly new sense ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Condition
New
Weight
642g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465019311
SKU
V9780465019311
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99-10
About Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Allan Bloom, formerly a professor of political theory at the University of Toronto, has recently become a professor of The Committee on Social Thought and in The College, University of Chicago.
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