Rousseau's political writings [Book] : discourse on inequality, discourse on political economy on social contract / translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella ; edited by Alan Ritter and Julia Conaway Bondanella.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Norton critical editionPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c1988.Edition: A Norton critical editionDescription: x, 321 pages. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780393956512 (paperback.)
  • 0393024792
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320 .011 19
Other classification:
  • 320.011
Summary: 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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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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