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2 Robert Wokler – Eloquent and highly regarded scholar of Rousseau and the Enlightenment, The Times, 3 August 2006, p. 65. Available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,60-2296552,00.html, accessed 17 August 2006
3 Robert Wokler – Scholar steeped in the political thought of the Enlightenment, The Guardian, 23 August 2006. Available online at http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,1856303,00.html, accessed 23 August 2006
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BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Rousseau on Society, Politics, Music and Language: An Historical Interpretation of his Early Writings, New York: Garland (1987), 520pp.
Rousseau, in the ‘Past Master’ series, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, reissued 1996, 132pp.; revised, expanded and illustrated edition for the ‘Very Short Introduction’ series, 2001, 172pp.; German translation by Michaela Rehm, Freiburg: Herder, 1999, 186pp.; Japanese translation by Shuji Yamamoto, Osaka: Koyo Shobo, 2000, 215pp.; Italian translation by Simona Ferlini, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001, 165pp.; Korean translation by Sigongsa Co. Ltd., Seoul: Eric Yang Agency, 2001, 224pp.; Hungarian, Portuguese and Turkish translations in progress.
‘Rameau, Rousseau and the Essai sur l’origine des langues’, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century CXVII (1974) pp. 179–238 (listed by Wokler as a monograph).
‘The influence of Diderot on the political theory of Rousseau’, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century CXXXII (1975) pp. 55–111 (listed by Wokler as a monograph).
SCHOLARLY EDITIONS
Correspondance complète de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, édition critique établie par R.A. Leigh, revue par Robert Wokler (avec Janet Laming), tome XLVII, Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation (1988), 319pp.
Correspondance complète de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, R.A. Leigh (ed.), revue par Robert Wokler (avec Janet Laming), tome XLVIII, Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation (1988), 277pp.
Correspondance complète de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, R.A. Leigh (ed.), revue par Robert Wokler (avec Janet Laming), tome XLIX, including ‘avertissement’, Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation (1989), 328pp.
Diderot's Political Writings with J.H. Mason (trans. and ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1992), 218pp.
Man and Society, by John Plamenatz, 3 vols., a new edition, expanded and revised by M.E. Plamenatz and R. Wokler, vol. I: From the Middle Ages to Locke, London: Longmans (1992) reprinted 1993, 1996, 408pp.
Man and Society, by John Plamenatz, a new edition, expanded and revised by M. E. Plamenatz and R. Wokler, vol. II: From Montesquieu to the Early Socialists, London: Longmans (1992) reprinted 1993, 398pp.
Man and Society, by John Plamenatz, a new edition, expanded and revised by M.E. Plamenatz and R. Wokler, vol. III: Hegel, Marx and Engels, and the Idea of Progress, London: Longmans (1992) reprinted 1993, 1996, 375pp.
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Rousseau and the Eighteenth Century. Essays in memory of R.A. Leigh, M. Hobson, J. Leigh and R. Wokler (eds.) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation (1992), 446pp.
Inventing Human Science with C. Fox and R. Porter (eds.) Berkeley: University of California Press (1995), 386pp.
Rousseau and Liberty, R. Wokler (ed.) Manchester: Manchester University Press (1995), 299pp.
The Enlightenment and Modernity with N. Geras (eds.) New York: Macmillan and St Martin's Press (2000), 232pp.
Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment with J. Mali (eds.) (including Wokler's own chapter on ‘Isaiah Berlin's Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment’), Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 93, part. 5, March 2004, 196pp.
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, with M. Goldie (eds.) (including Wokler's own chapter on ‘Ideology and the Origins of Social Science’) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006) ca 919pp.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS
‘Rousseau's Perfectibilian Libertarianism’, in A. Ryan (ed.) The Idea of Freedom: Essays in Honour of Isaiah Berlin, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1979) 20pp.
‘Rousseau on Rameau and Revolution’, in R.F. Brissenden and J.C. Eade (eds.) Studies in the Eighteenth Century, Canberra: Australian National University Press (1979) 33pp.
The Discours sur les sciences et les arts and its offspring: Rousseau in Reply to his Critics’, in S. Harvey, M. Hobson, et al (eds.) Reappraisals of Rousseau, Studies in honour of R A Leigh, Manchester: Manchester University Press (1980) 29pp.
‘L’Essai sur l’origine des langues en tant que fragment du Discours sur l’inégalité: Rousseau et ses ‘mauvais’ interprètes’, in M. Launay (ed.) Rousseau et Voltaire en 1978, (Actes du Colloque international de Nice, juin 1978) Geneva: Slatkine (1981) 25pp.
‘From the Orang-utan to the Vampire: Towards an Anthropology of Rousseau’ (with C. Frayling)’, in R.A. Leigh (ed.) Rousseau after Two Hundred Years: Proceedings of the Cambridge Bicentennial Colloquium, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1982) 21pp.
‘Rousseau and Marx’, in D. Miller and L. Siedentop (eds.) The Nature of Political Theory: Essays in Honour of John Plamenatz, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1983) 29pp.
‘Rousseau’, in Political Thought from Plato to Nato, London: Ariel Books/British Broadcasting Corporation (1984) 15pp.
‘Rousseau's Two Concepts of Liberty’, in G. Feaver and F. Rosen (eds.) Lives, Liberties and the Public Good, London: Macmillan (1987) 40pp.
‘Saint-Simon and the Passage from Political to Social Science’, in Anthony Pagden (ed.) The Languages of Political Theory in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1987) 17pp.
‘Our Illusory Chains; Rousseau's Images of Bondage and Freedom’, in M. Cranston and L.C. Boralevi (eds.) Culture et politique, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (1988) 10pp.
‘Natural Law and the Meaning of Rousseau's Political Thought’, in G. Barber, C. Courtney and D. Gilson (eds.) Enlightenment Essays in Memory of Robert Shackleton, Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation (1988) 18pp.
‘From Apes to Races in the Scottish Enlightenment: Kames and Monboddo on the History of Man’, in P. Jones (ed.) Science and Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh: John Donald (1989) 18pp.
‘Preparing the definitive edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau’, in Rousseau and the Eighteenth Century, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution (1992) 19pp.
‘Democracy's Mythical Ordeals: The Promethean and Procrustean Paths to Popular Self-rule’, in M. Moran and G. Parry (eds.) Democracy and Democratization, Oxford: Routledge (1993) 22pp.
‘Taking stock of the Leigh edition of the Correspondance de Rousseau’, Proceedings of the 1991 Bristol Congress of the Enlightenment, Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation (1993) 4pp.
‘Hegel's Rousseau: the General Will and Civil Society’, Deutscher Idealismus, (papers presented at a Symposium on German Idealism in November 1991) Göteborg: Arachne (1993) 38pp.
‘Projecting the Enlightenment’, in J. Horton and S. Mendus (eds.) After MacIntyre, Cambridge: Polity Press (1994) 19pp.
‘The Nexus of Animal and Rational: Sociobiology, Language and the Enlightenment Study of Apes’, in S. Maasen, E. Mendelsohn and P. Weingart (eds.) Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors, Sociology of the Sciences, A Yearbook, Vol. XVIII (1994), 22pp.
‘Enlightening Apes: Eighteenth-Century Speculation and Current Experiments on Linguistic Competence’, Ape/Man, Proceedings of the 1993 Leiden Pithecanthropus Centennial, Leiden (1995), 14pp.
‘Anthropology and conjectural history in the Enlightenment’, in Inventing Human Science, (1995) 21pp.
‘The Enlightenment Science of Politics’, in Inventing Human Science, (1995) 23pp.
‘Rousseau and his critics on the fanciful liberties we have lost’, in Rousseau and Liberty, (1995) 22pp.
‘Regressing towards post-modernity’, in Rousseau and Criticism, (Proceedings of North American Rousseau Society Colloquium of 1993), Trent (Ontario) (1996) 12pp.
‘Deconstructing the Self on the Wild Side’, in T. O’Hagan (ed.) Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Sources of the Self, London (Avebury) (1997) 14pp.
‘Dr Besterman, I presume’, in U. Kölving and C.Merveaud (eds.) Voltaire et ses combats, Vol. 1. Oxford (The Voltaire Foundation) (1997) 16pp.
‘The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity’, in L. Magnusson, B. Wittrock and J. Heilbron (eds.) The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity: Conceptual Change in Context, 1750–1850, Sociology of the Sciences, A Yearbook, Vol. XX (1998), 26pp.
‘The Enlightenment, the nation-state and the primal patricide of modernity’, Discussion paper series no. 46 of the Collegium Budapest, 1999, adapted as Wokler's own contribution to The Enlightenment and Modernity, 28pp.
‘Multiculturalism and ethnic cleansing in the Enlightenment’, in O.P. Grell and R. Porter (eds.) Toleration in Enlightenment Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2000) 17pp.
‘The Enlightenment Project on the eve of the Holocaust’, in B. Sträth (ed.) Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of Modernity, Brussels: Presses Universitaires Européennes (2000) 21pp.
‘The professoriate of political thought in England since 1914: a tale of three chairs’, in D. Castiglione and I. Hampsher-Monk (eds.), The History of Political Thought in National Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2001) 26pp.
‘Ancient Postmodernism in the Philosophy of Rousseau’, adapted from Wokler's contribution to Pensée libre, no. 8, in P. Riley (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau, New York: Cambridge University Press (2001) 26pp.
‘Repatriating modernity's alleged debts to the Enlightenment: French Revolutionary social science and the genesis of the nation-state’, in P. Joyce (ed.) The Social in Question, London: Routledge (2002) 19pp.
‘Political Modernity's Critical Juncture in the Course of the French Revolution’, in N. Witoszek and L. Trägårdh (eds.) Culture and Crisis: The Case of Germany and Sweden, New York and Oxford: Berghan Books (2002) 17pp.
‘Isaiah Berlin's Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment’, in J. Mali and R. Wokler (eds.) Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 93, part. 5, March 2004, 19pp.
‘Ideology and the Origins of Social Science’, in M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds.) The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004) 23pp.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Tyson and Buffon on the orang-utan’, Studies on Voltaire (1976), CLV: 2301–2319.
‘L’orango e l’uomo secondo Tyson e Buffon’, (expanded version and in part Wokler's own translation of ‘Tyson and Buffon’, as above) Ethos (1977) V: 20pp.
‘Perfectible apes in decadent cultures: Rousseau's anthropology revisited’, Daedalus (1978) (Summer), (special issue on Rousseau for our Time) 107–134.
‘The ape debates in Enlightenment anthropology’, Studies on Voltaire (1980) CXCII: 1164–1175.
‘A reply to Charvet: Rousseau and the perfectibility of man’, History of Political Thought (1980) I.i (Spring): 81–90.
‘Rousseau e Marx’, (an amended and expanded translation, on which Wokler collaborated, of ‘Rousseau and Marx’, as above), Bollettino di Storia della filosofia (1987) March: 33pp.
‘La Querelle des Bouffons and the Italian Liberation of France: a study of revolutionary foreplay’, published in a special issue (n.s. 11.i) of Eighteenth-Century Life (1987) 116–194.
‘From l’homme physique to l’homme moral and back: towards a history of enlightenment anthropology’, History of Human Sciences, (1993) 6.i (February): 121–138.
‘Rousseau's Pufendorf: natural law and the foundations of commercial society’, History of Political Thought (1994) XV: 373–402.
‘Ralph Alexander Leigh’, obituary notice, Proceedings of the British Academy, (1994) 84: 369–392.
‘Hegel versus Kant: from the Enlightenment project to post-modernity’, Australasian Studies in the History of Philosophy (1994) 2: 85–99.
‘Situating Rousseau in his world and ours’, the Arthur Wilson Memorial Lecture presented at Dartmouth College, January 1995, Social Science Information (1995) 34.4: 515–538.
‘Todorov's otherness’, New Literary History, (1996) 27.1: 43–57.
‘The French Revolutionary roots of political modernity in Hegel's philosophy, or the Enlightenment at dusk’, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, (1997) 35: 71–89.
‘The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary birth pangs of modernity’, Sociology of the Sciences, (1997) 35: 35–76.
‘Rousseau et la liberté’, Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1997) XLII, 23pp.
‘The Enlightenment project and its critics’, Poznan Studies (1998) 58 (issue entitled The Postmodernist critique of the project of Enlightenment) 13–31.
‘Contextualizing Hegel's phenomenology of the French Revolution and the terror’, Political Theory, (1998) 26.1: 33–55.
‘The subtextual reincarnation of Voltaire and Rousseau’, The American Scholar (1998) 67 (Spring): 55–64.
‘Pistols for two and coffee for one: rekindling Voltaire's and Rousseau's quarrel in footnotes’, Studies on Voltaire, (1998) CCCLXII: 1–10.
‘The Enlightenment project as betrayed by modernity’, History of European Ideas, (1998) 24.4–5: 301.
‘The manuscript authority of political thoughts’, History of Political Thought, (1999) XX.1 (Essays presented to J.H. Burns), 107–124.
‘Ernst Cassirer's Enlightenment: an exchange with Bruce Mazlish’, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, (2000) 29: 335–348.
‘From the moral and political sciences to the sciences of society by way of the French Revolution’, Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik, (2000) 8: 33–47.
‘Ancient Postmodernism in the Philosophy of Rousseau’, Pensée Libre, (2001) 8, 24pp.
‘Der besondere Charakter der ländlichen Aufklärung des Nordens’, The Cultural Construction of Norden, review essay of Bo Stråth et al (eds.), in Bernd Henningsen, ed. Wahlverwandtschaft, 9, Das Projekt Norden: Essays zur Konstruktion einer europäischen Region (2002) 7pp.
‘Isaiah Berlin's Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment’, Jewish Studies Yearbook, Central European University, (2002) 2, 9pp.
‘Rousseau's reading of the book of genesis and the theology of commercial society’, Modern Intellectual History, (2006) 3: 85–94.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES
‘Perfectibility of Man’, in W. F. Bynum and R. Porter (eds.) Dictionary of the History of Science, London: Macmillan (1981) 1p.
‘Introduction and The Enlightenment’, in M.A. Riff (ed.) Dictionary of Political Ideologies, Manchester: Manchester University Press 18pp.
‘Sixteen contributions (‘America’, ‘Civilization’, ‘Democracy’, ‘Liberalism’, ‘Liberty’, ‘Negroes’, ‘Optimism’, ‘Patriotism’, ‘The people’, ‘Physiocracy’, ‘Politeness’, ‘Primitivism’, ‘Progress’, ‘Property’, ‘Rights’, ‘Savagery’)’, in R. Porter and J. Yolton (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment, Oxford: Blackwell (1990).
‘Diderot’, in Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland (1996) 8pp.
‘Edward Tyson, Rousseau and Monboddo’, in F. Spencer (ed.) History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland (1996) 16pp.
‘Rousseau’, in T. Mautner (ed.) Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell (1996) 2pp.
‘Two contributions (‘Race’, ‘Savagery’)’, in J. Black and R. Porter (eds.) A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History, Oxford: Blackwell (1996) 2pp.
‘Four contributions (‘Buffon’, ‘Diderot’, ‘Enlightenment, Continental’ and ‘Monboddo’)’, in E. Craig (ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge (1998).
‘Voltaire and Rousseau’, in R.L. Arrington (ed.) A Companion to the Philosophers, Oxford: Blackwell (1999).
‘Two articles (‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau’ and ‘The Social Contract’)’, in Adam and Jessica Kuper (eds.) The Social Science Encyclopedia, London: Routledge (2004).
‘The Enlightenment’, in Dinah L. Shelton (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Macmillan: New York (2005).
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2Thanks are due to Professor Peter Swenson (Chair) and Pamela Bosward (Administrative Associate) of the Department of Political Science at Yale University, who at Qert notice provided me with a copy of Wokler's CV that included a highly detailed list of his publications up to 2003. This bibliography is an amended, restructured, updated and, occasionally, corrected version of that list of publications using my own research. I have not included the book reviews and journalism that Wokler listed in his CV. It is to also be expected that a man of such tireless scholarly activity has left behind unpublished work and work in the course of publication. Significant lacunae should be notified to the compiler by e-mail.
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Kennealy, P. the publications of robert wokler. Eur Polit Sci 5, 441–446 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210101
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