Unlike numerous Enlightenment authors, who used pennames or wrote anonymously, Jean-Jacques Rousseau always published under his own name, and held in high esteem his name as an author. It constituted a coherent and admitted policy, dictated by the writer's sense of responsibility but also by a request for social and personal recognition. Alas, from the 1760s, Rousseau found out the traps of celebrity: the desire for recognition becomes uneasiness when confronted to the public's insatiable curiosity.
celebrity regimes; author's name; author's social statute