The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-1762

The Noble Savage continues the unparalleled critical exposition of Rousseau's life and works launched in Jean-Jacques by distinguished political theorist Maurice Cranston, whom the American Spectator praised as 'a bold mind; also a learned mind and a natural biographer.' Rejecting the psychological and sociological approaches which have long dominated Rousseau studies, Cranston draws from original manuscript sources, determined, he insists, 'to break the chain of books based on books.'