A 2010 volume of essays by experts in the field, exploring freedom in Rousseau's thought from a variety of standpoints.

Preface; Part I: 1. Freeing man from sin: Rousseau on the natural condition of mankind Ioannis D. Evrigenis; 2. Making history natural in Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Natasha Lee; 3. Rousseau's Second Discourse, between Epicureanism and Stoicism Christopher Brooke; 4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Diderot in the late 1740s: satire, friendship, and freedom Marian Hobson; 5. If you please! Theater, verisimilitude, and freedom in the Letter to d'Alembert Jérôme Brillaud; 6. Music, the passions, and political freedom in Rousseau Tracy B. Strong; Part II: 7. The Social Contract, or The Mirage of the General Will Stanley Hoffmann; 8. 'Par le bon usage de ma liberté': freedom and Rousseau's reconstituted Christianity Jason Neidleman; 9. The constraints of liberty at the scene of instruction Diane Berrett Brown; 10. 'Toutes mes idées sont en images': Rousseau and the yoke of necessity Marius Hentea; 11. Rousseau's ruins Louisa Shea; 12. Can woman be free? Philip Stewart; 13. The subject and its body: love of oneself and freedom in the thought of Rousseau Mathieu Brunet and Bertrand Guillarme; Part III: 14. Paranoia and freedom in Rousseau's final decade Leo Damrosch; 15. Freedom and the project of idleness Pierre Saint-Amand; 16. On the uses of negative freedom Marie-Hélène Huet; 17. Fail better: Rousseau's creative délire Christie McDonald; Postface Stanley Hoffmann; Bibliography; Index.