Scientific editors:Audidière (Sophie), Bernardi (Bruno), Frantz (Pierre), Le Menthéour (Rudy), Lenne-Cornuez (Johanna), Montagnier (Jean-Paul C.), Mostefai (Ourida), Swenson (James), Volpilhac-Auger (Catherine) General directors:Berchtold (Jacques), Jacob (François), Martin (Christophe), Séité (Yannick)
Abstract: During this critical period, Rousseau composes music, translates, gives a new impetus to his philosophy: in the Lettre à D’Alembert, he takes leave of the Parisian world, in texts never published, he explains his thought about social cohesion, moral duty, and, the progress of human spirit