Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Charles Edwyn Vaughan

Book Overview

This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus. Each text has been newly translated and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors' introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts, as well as an introduction to Rousseau's life and historical situation. The volume also includes annotated appendices that help students to explore the origins and influences of Rousseau's work, including excerpts from Hobbes, Pascal, Descartes, Mandeville, Diderot, Voltaire, Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Joseph de Maistre, Kant, Hegel, and Engels.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554812976
• ISBN13: 9781554812974
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"