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...quite motivate modern audiences to read Rousseau’s own works. Damrosch is very good at communicating the scope of Rousseau’s influence on later thinkers and entire fields of inquiry, but this is not quite the same. Isaac Newton’s “Principia?? was also ground-breaking and influential, but so far as I know is not required reading among mathematicians and physicists. History is littered with formerly influential writers who are no longer relevant; Rousseau is not one of them, but I am not sure if this will be clear...
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