The Social Contract and The Discourses (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques/ Cole, G. D. H. (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0679423028 / ISBN 13: 9780679423027

Published by Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1993

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2nd edition. 472 pages. 8.50x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Social Contract and The Discourses (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679423028
• ISBN 13: 9780679423027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.59 kilograms

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Synopsis

Two works in one volume

Jean-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.

This 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 Émile in which he summarizes its argument, along with Cole's original preface, which has itself become a classic.

Translated by G. D. H. Cole

Revised and augmented by J. H. Brumfitt and John C. Hall

About the Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile.