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HUM 302: Rousseau's Letter to D'Alembert on the Theater
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HUM 302: Rousseau's Letter to D'Alembert on the Theater

Rousseau's Reactionary Work
Montana Classical College
Jul 04, 2022
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Here is a lecture on Rousseau’s Letter to D’Alembert. It is an exciting little work that takes what appears to be an innocuous suggestion about adding a public theater to Geneva, and turns it into a brutal critique of the Enlightenment.

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