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

ISBN: 0393956512

Author: Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Condition: New

This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseaus political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract. Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of Rousseaus life, selections from his Confessions, and comments on Rousseaus work and character from such illustrious contemporaries and early critics as Voltaire, Hume, Boswell and Johnson, Paine, Kant, and Proudhon. Commentaries includes assessments of Rousseaus political thought by a wide variety of scholars and critics including Judith Shklar, Robert Nisbet, Simone Weil, and Benjamin R. Barber.