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The social contract and other later political writings / Rousseau ; edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch.

By:

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Gourevitch, Victor [editor,, translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Cambridge texts in the history of political thoughtPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: liv, 341 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521413826
9780521413824
0521424461
9780521424462

Uniform titles:

Selections. English. 1997

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.11 20

LOC classification:

JC179 .R7 1997

Partial contents:

Discourse on the political economy -- Of the social contract -- The state of war -- Considerations on the Government of Poland -- Letter to D'Offreville -- Letter to Usteri -- Letter to Mirabeau -- Letter to Franquieres.

Summary: "The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as The Social Contract and a selection of Rousseau's letters on important aspects of his thought. The Social Contract has become Rousseau's most famous single work, but on publication was condemned by both the civil and the ecclesiastical authorities in France and Geneva. Rousseau fled and it is during this period that he wrote some of his autobiographical works as well as political essays such as On the Government of Poland. This volume, like its predecessor, contains a comprehensive introduction, chronology and guide to further reading, and will enable students to obtain a full understanding of the writings of one of the world's greatest thinkers."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-322) and index.

"The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as The Social Contract and a selection of Rousseau's letters on important aspects of his thought. The Social Contract has become Rousseau's most famous single work, but on publication was condemned by both the civil and the ecclesiastical authorities in France and Geneva. Rousseau fled and it is during this period that he wrote some of his autobiographical works as well as political essays such as On the Government of Poland. This volume, like its predecessor, contains a comprehensive introduction, chronology and guide to further reading, and will enable students to obtain a full understanding of the writings of one of the world's greatest thinkers."--Publisher description.

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