{"product_id":"the-social-contract-and-the-jean-jacques-rousseau-9780679423027","title":"The Social Contract and the Discourses: Introduction by Alan Ryan","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo works in one volume\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau was the first, and the most eloquent and versatile, of that extraordinary line of radical modern thinkers who aimed their disenchantment at the very roots of the human social order and thereby forever reshaped the way we deal with one another. Of Rousseau's many contributions to the tradition he inaugurated, the one for which he is most revered and that makes these pages glow with conviction is his passionate indignation about anything that trammels individual freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revised edition of G. D. H. Cole's celebrated translation includes an appendix of sections from the first manuscript draft of The Social Contract and the passage in Rousseau's novel  mile in which he summarizes its argument, along with Cole's original preface, which has itself become a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by G. D. H. Cole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevised and augmented by J. H. Brumfitt and John C. Hall \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679423028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679423027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.31h x 5.29w x 1.16d","brand":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992273158399,"sku":"9780679423027","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_190994de-100f-4f12-a3d1-6783d873ba00.jpg?v=1683315086","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-social-contract-and-the-jean-jacques-rousseau-9780679423027","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}