Emile: Or On Education

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author), Allan Bloom (Translator)

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ISBN-10: 9780465019311

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Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile, Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magnificent translation of Plato's Republic has been universally hailed as a virtual rediscovery of that timeless text, again brings together the translator's gift for journeying between two languages and cultures and the philosopher's perception of the true meaning and significance of the issues being examined in the work. The result is a clear, readable, and highly engrossing text that at the same time offers a wholly new sense of the importance and relevance of Rousseau's thought to us.In addition to his translation, Bloom provides a brilliant introduction that relates the structure and themes of the book to the vital preoccupation's of our own age, particularly in the field of education, but also more generally to the current concerns about the limits and possibilities of human nature. Thus in this translation Emile, long a classic in the history of Western thought and educational theory, becomes something more: a prescription, fresh and dazzling, for the bringing up of autonomous, responsible—that is, truly democratic—human beings.

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Allan Bloom, formerly a professor of political theory at the University of Toronto, has recently become a professor of The Committee on Social Thought and in The College, University of Chicago.

Paperback: 501 pages
Publisher: Basic Books (June 29, 1979)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780465019311
ISBN-13: 978-0465019311
ASIN: 0465019315
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.5 x 9.1 inches
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Average Customer Review: 34 customer reviews
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Sean B

One of my favorite books!

October 17, 2016

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Great (unknown) book. Bloom's translation is very easy to understand and follow (and he wrote an outstanding intro/ summary). My wife and I really enjoy reading this together and discussing how it applies to our parenting efforts. It's helping us raise resilient kids (not city sissies!). Also helping me as a scout master. He meanders through different topics, but so much of this applies to today.

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June 4, 2010

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*update: please note that this review is/was for the NuVision Hardcover that is erroneously linked with the Basic Books paperback--if anyone knows how to get Amazon to unlink these books please help!

This NuVision is just a plain public domain re-publishing--probably on demand-- of the Foxley translation from 1911. There are no notes or introduction or anything. If you just want a copy of Rousseau's Emile without concern for edition, translation, etc. you'd be crazy to spend this kind of money when the same or better editions are available at a fraction of the cost.

If you want a quality printing with excellent introduction and notes as well as index you need the Allan Bloom translation(Basic Books 1979). It has a light blue cover. And it's much cheaper than what they're asking for this thing. Curiously it doesn't come up unless you search "Rousseau Emile Allan Bloom"; the Bloom translation is also available in an expensive scholarly edition (collected works of Rousseau) that comes up with just "Allan Bloom Emile".

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Nicholas Roberts

18th century child raising manual

April 29, 2014

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This was a fun book to read. It gave you insight into the way Rousseau and the people of the time thought about children, but also how they lived their lives. The book is divided into chapters that cover different aspects of life. First infancy, childhood, preadolescence and finally adolescence. The last chapter is about how to raise girls but I think Rousseau rushed that one. The book is full of philosophical insights on children and their ages as well as fun stories about Rousseau and Emile. Some of the stories are really funny but not meant to be (like taking an infant to an artillery shooting range to get him immune to load noises). Nevertheless after all these years the book still offers plenty of child rearing advice that is useful today (like let kids go outside and play, get exercise and scrap their knees once in a while rather than coddle them).

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Jean Rousseau's book Emile is a must read for both ...

March 14, 2016

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Jean Rousseau's book Emile is a must read for both parents and those in the educational field. Although his ideas can be controversial there is much that can be applied today.

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Servius

Kant revered it

August 19, 2017

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Still reading with fascination. However, according to Kant, the significance of its publication was not less than that of the French Revolution. That should be a good enough review for anybody.

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Lucy Agnew

Five Stars

September 24, 2017

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good condition

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Dr. Sherman

Five Stars

February 22, 2015

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An excellent classic that presents an early view on child development.

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GUIHUA LI

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February 20, 2015

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very good

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