Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

Name: Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Two Discourses and the Social Contract
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ISBN: 9780226921860

ISBN-10: 0226921867

ISBN-13: 9780226921860

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John T. Scott

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Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees that Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This new edition of his major political writings, published in the year of the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth, renews attention to the perennial importance of Rousseau’s work. The book brings together superb new translations by renowned Rousseau scholar John T. Scott of…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Chronology


Introduction


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Note on the Translation and Edition


Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts


Discourse on Inequality


On The Social Contract


Bibliography of Rousseau's Sources


Index