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The heart of Rousseau's thinking, as Arthur Melzer and others have shown, is to honor modern individualism but at the same time to subject it to a devastating critique.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Leo Damrosch

Leo Damrosch

Born: 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Leo Damrosch is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A.
Known for:
  1. Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (2013)
  2. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005)
  3. Tocqueville's Discovery of America (2010)
  4. The sorrows of the Quaker Jesus (1996)

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