Emile - by Jean-Jacques Rousseau & Allan Bloom (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A clear, readable, and highly engrossing translation of Rousseau s masterpiece on the education and training of the young."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Alan Bloom's new translation of <i>Emile</i>, 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 <i>Plato's Republic</i> 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 of the importance and relevance of Rousseau's thought to us.In addition to his translation, Bloom provides a brilliant introduction that relates the structure and themes of the book to the vital preoccupation's of our own age, particularly in the field of education, but also more generally to the current concerns about the limits and possibilities of human nature. Thus in this translation <i>Emile, </i> long a classic in the history of Western thought and educational theory, becomes something more: a prescription, fresh and dazzling, for the bringing up of autonomous, responsible--that is, truly democratic--human beings.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jean-Jacques Rousseau </b>(1712-1778) was a philosopher, whose work and political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought. <p/><b>Allan Bloom, </b> 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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