Rousseau The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings

Name: Rousseau The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings
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ISBN: 9780521424455

ISBN-10: 0521424453

ISBN-13: 9780521424455

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Gourevitch, Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner, Quentin Skinner

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The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. This second volume contains the earlier writings such as the First and Second Discourses, the publication of which signalled the power and challenge of Rousseau's thinking. Rousseau's influence was wide reaching and has continued to grow since his death: major landmarks in world history, such as the American and French Revolutions, were profoundly affected by Rousseau's writing, as were cultural and intellectual movements such as Romanticism and Idealism. This volume, like its successor, contains a comprehensive introduction,…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/13/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 485
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.54" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Victor Gourevitch is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Wesleyan University.



Preface


Introduction


Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau


A brief guide to further reading


A note on the texts


A note on the translations


A note on the editorial notes and index


Discourse on the Science and Arts or First Discourse


Preface








Replies to Critics


Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men or Second Discourse


Epistle Dedicatory


Preface


Exordium








Rousseau's Notes


Replies to Critics


Letter to Voltaire


Essay on the Origin of Languages


Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book


Discourse on the Virtue a Hero Most Needs or On Heroic Virtue


List of abbreviations and textual conventions


Editorial notes


Index of editors, translators and annotators


General index