Frail Happiness: An Essay on Rousseau - Softcover

Todorov, Tzvetan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271024003 ISBN 13: 9780271024004

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

"We are all confronted, at one time or another, with choices as to what sort of life we will lead." So Tzvetan Todorov begins Frail Happiness, an important interpretation of Rousseau, one suffused with Todorov’s own moral seriousness and intellectual depth. While ranging widely through Rousseau’s corpus with skill and scholarly authority Todorov returns, again and again, to the fragile yet persistent hope for human happiness.

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About the Authors

Tzvetan Todorov is a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. A linguist, literary theorist, and world-renowned essayist, he is the author of numerous books, several of which have been translated into English, including: Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria (Penn State, 1999).

John T. Scott is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Davis.

Robert D. Zaretsky is Associate Professor of French at the University of Houston, where he holds a joint appointment in the Honors College and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271024003
• ISBN 13: 9780271024004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104