Rousseau: The sentiment of existence

Rousseau: The Sentiment of Existence

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-196

  Gauthier, David ^a  

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511616235     Document Type: Book

References (51)

1. Bush B.et al. translation, “it to read”; French “la lire.”
2. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 4.
3. Jean Starobinski is, to my knowledge, the first to call attention to this parallel. See Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 217.
4. The contrast between the Tutor's two remarks about possession has been noted by P. D. Jimack(v. notes in OC2.1678–9).
5. Rousseau R. speaks in the spirit of these Legislators in his Letter to d’Alembert, proposing the introduction of public festivals (rather than the theater) in Geneva, as “an important component of the training in law and order and good morals” (CW10.347, OC5.119).
6. Rousseau's R. use of this same phrase to describe the final condition of extreme inequality in the Discourse on Inequality.
7. Rousseau R. discusses government at length in Book III of the Social Contract. The key idea is that sovereignty, expressed in the general will, determines the framework within which magistracy is exercised. (v. OC3.195–7)
8. Stewart S and Vach e tr., “I have long deluded myself”; Fr. “Je me suis longtems fait illusion.” Further notes omit translators’ names.
9. Tr., “delusion”; Fr. “illusion.”
10. Tr., “a thing”; Fr. “rien.”
11. Tr., “no longer dwell”; Fr. “ne seras plus.”
12. Tr., “Nay, I leave thee not”; Fr. “Non, je ne te quitte pas.”
13. Tr., “flattering”; Fr. “douce.”
14. Tr., “to pay with my life”; Fr. “d’acheter au prix de ma vie.”
15. Tr., “still”; Fr. “toujours.”
16. Tr., “tell thee so”; Fr. “de te le dire.” And which differs from the Tutor's idea of love in Emile.
17. Tr., “sensible.” One of the referees noted that this is not the appropriate rendition of the Fr. “sensible.”
18. Tr., “designed”; Fr. “ordonn´e.”
19. Tr., “desert”; Fr. “d´eserte.”
20. Tr., “trickery”; Fr. “fripponerie.”
21. Tr., “illusions”; Fr. “chimeres.”
22. Stewart S and Vach e tr. see note 3 above.
23. Stewart S and Vach e tr. see notes 6, 8–11 above.
24. Kelly tr., “piece of comparison”; Fr. “pi´ece de comparaison.”
25. Bush tr., “believed it to read.”
26. Mlle. Goton's. age, although she was clearly much younger than Mlle. de Vulson.
27. The Paris manuscript of the Confessions reads, “found again all the fire which Mlle. de Vulson had inspired in me.” (See note in OC1.1958.).
28. Mlle. de Vulson, when he says, “[W]ith pride I triumphed from her preference in front of great rivals.” (CW5.24, OC1.28).
29. Rousseau R. mentions writing in but one context: “when my theme was written, I helped him [my cousin Bernard] to do his.” (CW5.12, OC1.13).
30. Kelly tr., “not to separate from each other any more.”
31. Baronne de Warens, might have written a very different account of her relationship to the person she called “Petit” and who called her “Maman” is of no direct relevance.
32. Kelly tr., “a lover rather than a friend.”
33. Kelly tr., “quickly passing.”
34. Kelly tr., “not the one suited to me.”
35. Kelly tr., “that would suit me.”
36. Maurice Cranston, in the second volume of his biography of Rousseau, The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754–1762 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 64.
37. Rousseau R. first proclaims this as his motto in the Letter to d’Alembert. See OC1.1788.
38. Kelly tr., “everything I have undertaken for it”; Fr. “tout ce que j’ai pris pour elle.”
39. I exclude here Les Fˆetes de Ramire, which Rousseau was commissioned to adapt from a work by Voltaire and Rameau.
40. Kelly tr., “I play acted nothing.”
41. Jean Jacques. “guilty suspiciousness” in the Dialogues. (CW1.40, OC1.711).
42. Maurice Cranston, The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754– 1762 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 47.
43. Butterworth tr. omits “myself”; Fr. “que suis-je moi-mˆeme?” Further notes omit translator's name.
44. Tr., “ineffectual”; Fr. “nul.”
45. Tr., “we feel”; Fr. “on sent.”
46. Tr., “imperceptibly dominated”; Fr. “insensiblement domin´e.”
47. Tr., “feet”; Fr. “pas.”
48. Butterworth B. (CW8.77) translates “jouis de moi mˆeme” simply as “enjoy myself.”
49. Tr., “I only lived in and for her”; Fr. “je ne vivais plus qu’en elle et pour elle.”
50. Tr., “No day passes but what I recall”; Fr. “Il n’y a pas du jour o `u je ne me rappelle.”
51. Rousseau R. contradicts the passage in the ninth book of the Confessions to which I made reference earlier, since there he says, “I had not found a friend entirely my own.” (CW5.358, OC1.426).