Arthur M. Melzer

The Origin of the Counter-Enlightenment: Rousseau and the New Religion of Sincerity

Arthur M. Melzer · American Political Science Review · 1996 · 98 citations

Counter-enlightenment—that Attack, Humanities, Existentialism +10

On the Pedagogical Motive for Esoteric Writing

Arthur M. Melzer · The Journal of Politics · 2007 · 51 citations

Literary Theory, Rhetoric, Inherent Paradoxes +18

Rousseau and the Modern Cult of Sincerity

Arthur M. Melzer · The Harvard Review of Philosophy · 1995 · 28 citations · Full text

Democracy, Public Policy, Humanities +10

Rousseau's Moral Realism: Replacing Natural Law with the General Will

Arthur M. Melzer · American Political Science Review · 1983 · 24 citations

Moral Philosophy, Law, Normative Ethic +11

Esotericism and the Critique of Historicism

Arthur M. Melzer · American Political Science Review · 2006 · 21 citations

Speculative Philosophy, Literary History, Modern Mind +15