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Rousseau's Political Writings Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, on Social Contract

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ISBN-10: 0393956512

ISBN-13: 9780393956511

Edition: 1988

Authors: Jean-Jacques. Rousseau, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Alan Ritter

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This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau's political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract. Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of Rousseau's life, selections from his Confessions, and comments on Rousseau's work and character from such illustrious contemporaries and early critics as Voltaire, Hume, Boswell and Johnson, Paine, Kant, and Proudhon. Commentaries includes assessments of Rousseau's political thought by a wide variety of scholars and critics including Judith Shklar, Robert Nisbet, Simone Weil, and Benjamin R. Barber.
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Book details

List price: $9.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.40" wide x 8.35" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Alan Ritter teaches at Trinity College and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is the author of The Political Thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Anarchism: A Theoretical Analysis.