Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies
Department of Government
Co-Director The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas
The University of Texas at Austin
158 W 21st St. STOP A1800
Austin , Texas 78712-1704
Phone: (512) 232-1529
Fax: (512) 471-1061
Email: tpangle@austin.utexas.edu
The University of Texas at Austin
158 W 21st St. STOP A1800
Austin , Texas 78712-1704
Phone: (512) 232-1529
Fax: (512) 471-1061
Email: tpangle@austin.utexas.edu
Featured Book
This book explains Rousseau’s most profound exploration and articulation of his own life, personality, soul, and thought as “the man of nature enlightened by reason.” Rousseau’s final work is shown to be the fullest embodiment of the experiential wisdom from which flows and to which points Rousseau’s political and moral philosophy, his theology, and his musical and literary art. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Here it is argued that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth interpretation of this writing’s complex and multi-leveled intended teaching—about the normatively best way of life.