Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On Social Contract (Norton Critical Editions)

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Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On Social Contract (Norton Critical Editions)

by Jean Jacques Rousseau (Editor: Julia Conaway Bondanella) (Translator: Julia Conaway Bondanella) (Editor: Alan Ritter)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (1987-10-17)
ISBN: 0393956512
EAN: 9780393956511
Binding/Media: Paperback - 336 pages
Edition: First Edition
SKU: 5_7744
Condition: New
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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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