A Grand Tour

By Robert Zaretsky

In Boswell’s visit with Rousseau, we discover a window into our contemporary selves.

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Issue: Winter 2014 / Volume 90/1
Published: January 6, 2014
Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky is professor of history in the Honors College, University of Houston. His most recent books are Albert Camus: Elements of a Life and, with John Scott, The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume and the Limits of Human Understanding.

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