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.
| ISBN: | 9781554812974 |
| Publication date: | 30th March 2018 |
| Author: | JeanJacques Rousseau |
| Publisher: | Broadview Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 387 pages |
| Series: | Broadview Editions |
| Genres: |
Western philosophy: Enlightenment Social and political philosophy Political science and theory |