Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings
- ISBN-10
- 131660554X
- ISBN-13
- 9781316605547
- Series
- Rousseau
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 516
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-11-08
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Description
A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second Discourses - together with Rousseau's extensive Replies to critics of these Discourses; the Essay on the Origin of Languages; the Letter to Voltaire on Providence; as well as several minor but illuminating writings - the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book. In these as well as in his later writings, Rousseau probes the very premises of modern thought. His influence was wide-reaching from the very first, and it has continued to grow since his death. The American and the French Revolutions were profoundly affected by his thought, as were Romanticism and Idealism. This new edition features up-to-date translations, an expanded introduction, and an extensive editorial apparatus designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2018-11-08
- 516 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
-
- 2018-11-08
- 416 pages
- Ebook
- Cambridge University Press
-
- 1997-07-24
- 341 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
-
- 1997-07-13
- 498 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
Similar books
-
Rousseau: 'The Discourses' and Other Early Political Writings
By Jean-Jacques RousseauThis two volume collection forms a comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings.
-
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"
By Jean-Jacques RousseauThe three works collected in The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau represent an important contribution to eighteenth-century political theory that has exerted an extensive influence on generations of thinkers, beginning with ...
-
Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on...
By Jean-Jacques RousseauNew footnotes, headnotes, and a chronology by David Wootton provide expert guidance to first-time readers of the texts.
-
Basic Political Writings
By Jean-Jacques RousseauOffers a translation of the author's most important political writings.
-
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings
By Jean-Jacques RousseauThis 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.
-
A Discourse on Inequality
By Jean-Jacques RousseauIn A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege.
-
The Social Contract: And, The First and Second Discourses
By Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gita MayThis volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings - The Social Contract and The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of ...
-
العقد الاجتماعي
By المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات, جون لوك, ديفيد هيومصدر عن سلسلة "طي الذاكرة" في المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات كتاب العقد الاجتماعي، وهو ترجمة عبد الكريم أحمد لكتاب دافيد هيوم وجان جاك روسو وجون لوك Social Contract. لا...
-
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (second Discourse) ; Polemics ; And, Political Economy
By Jean-Jacques RousseauIncludes the Second Discourse (complete with the author’s extensive notes), contemporary critiques by Voltaire, Diderot, Bonnet, and LeRoy, Rousseau’s replies (some never before translated), and Political Economy, which first outlined...
-
The General Will
By David Lay Williams, James FarrChronologie Universelle, ou Histoire Générale des Temps, in Annales de la Sociétié Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Geneva: Chez A. ... Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, in Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings, ed.