Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Rousseau and the Social Contract (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks) - Hardcover

Bertram, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415201985 ISBN 13: 9780415201988

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Rousseau's Social Contract is a benchmark in political philosophy and has influenced moral and political thought since its publication. Rousseau and the Social Contract introduces and assesses:

*Rousseau's life and the background of the Social Contract
*The ideas and arguments of the Social Contract
*Rousseau's continuing importance to politics and philosophy

Rousseau and the Social Contract will be essential reading for all students of philosophy and politics, and anyone coming to Rousseau for the first time.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Bertram is senior lecturer of philosophy at Bristol University and has written for many journals in the political philosophy area.

Review:

...the book is smart, well-written and fair. It is both the best available companion for the first-time reader of the Social Contract and a valuable contribution to the scholarship on Rousseau. Matthew Simpson, Journal of the History of Philosophy

'Bertram gives us an insightful account of Rousseau’s character, an exemplary and charitable commentary on the Social Contract, and a brief but lucid account of his influence on later thinkers... a book which we should read and for which we should give thanks.'  - Tony Lynch, Australian Journal of Political Science

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415201985
• ISBN 13: 9780415201988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224