Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings / Edition 1

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Gourevitch

Overview

Volume II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract. The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau to flee. In exile he wrote both autobiographical and political works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521424462
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/24/1997
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.39(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Chronology; A brief guide to further reading; A note on the texts; A note on the translations; A note on the editorial notes; Discourse on Political Economy; Of the Social Contract; Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Extract from the early version of Of The Social Contract known as the Geneva Manuscript; The State of War; Considerations on the Government of Poland; Letter to D'Offreville; Letter to Usteri; Letter to Mirabeau; Letter to Franquieres; List of abbreviations and textual conventions; Editorial notes; Index of editors, translators and annotators; General index.

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"...Gourevitch serves Rousseau and hence students very well." Pamela K. Jensen, Review of Metaphysics

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"...Gourevitch serves Rousseau and hence students very well." Pamela K. Jensen, Review of Metaphysics

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