{"product_id":"the-solitary-self","title":"The Solitary Self","description":"A monumental achievement, Maurice Cranston's trilogy provides the definitive account of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's turbulent life. Now available in paperback, this final volume completes a masterful biography of one of the most important philosophers of all time. \u003ci\u003eThe Solitary Self \u003c\/i\u003etraces the last tempestuous years of Rousseau's life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Solitary Self\u003c\/i\u003e is a fitting coda to a magisterial work. Cranston . . . is a compelling stylist who narrates Rousseau's tribulations with a mixture of compassion and dry humor.\"—Thomas Pavel, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cranston not only recreates for his readers a rounded view of Rousseau himself, he sets it firmly in the social and political context of Europe's \u003ci\u003eancien regime\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . An engrossing work of history.\"—John Gray, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cranston's painstaking archival research and lucid style yield the most detailed and thoroughly documented biography of Rousseau written in English. His epilogue masterfully sums up Rousseau's importance as political philosopher and initiator of romantic sensibilities.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone curious about the paradoxes of a most paradoxical man will not go wrong by starting with this invaluable biography.\"—James Miller, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As absorbing as a picaresque novel.\"—Naomi Bliven, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A monument of scholarship. . . . This amazing biography, like Boswell's account of Johnson, recreates the daily life of Rousseau: what he did, who he saw, what he said, what he wrote. . . . We may be quite confident that we hold in our hands the authoritative account of this life. The definitive Rousseau.\"—Isaac Kramnick, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaurice Cranston (1920-1993), a distinguished scholar and recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of John Locke, was professor of political science at the London School of Economics. His numerous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Romantic Movement\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhilosophers and Pamphleteers\u003c\/i\u003e, and translations of Rousseau's \u003ci\u003eThe Social Contract\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on the Origins of Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Maurice Cranston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42828197101629,"sku":"9780226118666","price":47.66,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780226118666_fc5a56db-ad20-419b-9b1f-b20c6134cff0.jpg?v=1766950167","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-solitary-self","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}