Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Hackett Classics) - Hardcover

Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Donald A. Cress

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0872201511 ISBN 13: 9780872201514

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US), 1992

Synopsis

Focuses on the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This title includes a select bibliography, a note on the text, a translator's note, and Rousseau's own 'Notes on the Discourse'.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald A. Cress is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Parkside. His translations of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on Method are also published by Hackett. James Miller teaches a cycle of courses on Dante for the Comparative Literature and Culture program at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. His other books include Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity and Fluid Exchanges: Artists and Critics in the AIDS Crisis. He has also translated Andrew Pawlowski's play Dante on the Steps of Immortality. James Miller looks forward to a hot afterlife on the Seventh Terrace of Purgatory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0872201511
• ISBN 13: 9780872201514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112