Rousseau and women
28th June 2012
Today is the 300th birthday of the great philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, so I thought I’d post this book from 1792, ‘On Rousseau’s connections with women’, by Carl Gotthold Lenz (1763–1809), described by one bibliography as ‘a rarity of the very first order’ (which it is). In 1790, Lenz had published a Geschichte der Weiber im heroischen Zeitalter (‘History of women […]
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