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Rousseau : 'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings

ISBN: 9780521424462 | 0521424461
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 8/28/1997

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SummaryTable of Contents
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as The Social Contract, which has become Rousseau's most famous single work.

Volume two contains the later writings such as The Social Contractand a selection of Rousseau’s letters on important aspects of his thought. The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau to flee. In exile he wrote... MORE
Prefacevii
Introductionix
Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseauxxxii
A brief guide to further readingxxxv
A note on the textsxlii
A note on the translations... MORExliv
A note on the editorial notes and indexliv
Discourse on Political Economy
3(36)
Of the Social Contract
39(114)
Book I
41(16)
Book II
57(25)
Book III
82(39)
Book IV
121(32)
From the early version of the Social Contract known as the Geneva Manuscript: Bk. I, ch. 2; from Bk. II, ch. 4
153(9)
The State of War
162(15)
Considerations on the Government of Poland
177(109)
Selected Letters
Letter to D'Offreville
261(4)
Letter to Usteri
265(3)
Letter to Mirabeau
268(4)
Letter to Franquieres
272(14)
List of abbreviations and textual conventions286(4)
Editorial notes290(33)
Index of editors, translators, and annotators323(2)
General index325


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