The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses (Rethinking the Western Tradition)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

ISBN 10: 0300091400 / ISBN 13: 9780300091403

Published by Yale University Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300091400
• ISBN 13: 9780300091403
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

For this edition Susan Dunn has provided a new translation of the "Discourse on the Sciences and Arts" and has revised a previously published translation of "The Social Contract".

About the Author

Susan Dunn, professor of Romance Languages and the History of Ideas at Williams College, is the author of many other books, including The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the French Political Imagination and Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light.