Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men: by Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

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Rousseau, Jean Jacques; Rosenblatt, Helena

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Synopsis

Discover why Rousseaus criticisms of human nature, political hierarchy, and private property were so controversial in his time yet later hailed as a foundation of democracy in this edition of Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men.

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About the Author

HELENA ROSENBLATT (Ph.D., Columbia) is a professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A specialist in European intellectual history, she is the author of Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (2008) and Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749-1762 (1997), and she is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Constant (2009).

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