Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, on Social Contract: A Norton Critical Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393956511)

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.

Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
ISBN-10: 0393956512
ISBN-13: 9780393956511
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/17/1987
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.18w x 0.66d