TRP, Rousseau's cousin, another Enlightenment party pooper, so to speak.

[Mark Kohut]

>From an essay on teaching Rousseau's "Letter to D' Alembert on the Theatre": 
 
 
"Rousseau's essay argues that the twin vices of vanity and competition, born when man left the "state of nature" and formed societies, inevitably destroy virtue and happiness.
Rousseau, the Enlightenment's party pooper, shocks college students by trashing education and reason, science and art, and the advancement of knowledge in general."
 
I was, with the use of "vanity', reminded of all those mirrors in TRPs work.....and much more in the second line.
 
The whole essay is at The Chronicle of Higher Education if interested.



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