This volume seeks to capture Jean-Jacques Rousseau's astonishing contribution to our understanding of the dilemmas of modernity. For the contributors to this book Rousseau is present as well as past, because he was so modern and yet so ambivalent about modernity, a position with which we are quite familiar. Highlighted in this volume is the contention that Rousseau set the stage for many discussions of the good and bad of modernity.

Introduction: Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity Mark Hulliung Part One: Before and After Vincennes1 Rousseau's Chemical Apprenticeship Christopher Kelly Part Two: Citoyens and Citoyennes2 Rousseau's Response to the Social Contract Tradition Mark Hulliung 3 Over Her Dead Body: Voila La Citoyenne? Claudia Schaler Part Three: Sound and Music4 How to Be Modern in Music: Rousseau between Greece, Italy, and Vienna Michael O'Dea 5 Listening in Rousseau's Auditory World: Sound, Noise, and Music Julia Simon Part Four: Ancients and Moderns6 Rousseau, Fenelon, and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns Patrick Riley 7 Stoicism for Rousseau and Other Beleaguered Moderns Mark Hulliung Part Five: The Modern Predicament8 Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Liberal Modernity Shefali Misra 9 The Unconditional Self Claude Habib About the AuthorsIndex