The social contract ; and the first and second discourses

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings The Social Contract and The Fir...

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Main Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Other Authors: Dunn, Susan, 1945- (Editor, Translator), May, Gita (Contributor), Bellah, Robert N. (Robert Neelly), 1927-2013 (Contributor), Bromwich, David, 1951- (Contributor), O'Brien, Conor Cruise, 1917-2008 (Contributor), Crocker, Lester G. (Translator), Tozer, Henry J. (Henry John) (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2002
Series:Rethinking the Western tradition.
Subjects:
Political science > Early works to 1800.
Social contract > Early works to 1800.
Civilization > Early works to 1800.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Rousseau's political triptych / Susan Dunn
  • Chronology of Rousseau's life. The first discourse : Discourse on the sciences and arts ; The second discourse : Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among mankind ; The social contract
  • Rethinking The first and second discourses and The social contract. Rousseau, cultural critic / Gita May ; Rousseau on society and the individual / Robert N. Bellah ; Rousseau and the self without property / David Browmich ; Rousseau, Robespierre, Burke, Jefferson, and the French revolution / Conor Cruise O'Brien.

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