Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Second Discourse), Polemics, and Political Economy (Collected Writings of Rousseau) - Hardcover

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087451603X ISBN 13: 9780874516036

Publisher: Dartmouth College Press, 1993

Synopsis

Includes the Second Discourse (complete with the author’s extensive notes), contemporary critiques by Voltaire, Diderot, Bonnet, and LeRoy, Rousseau’s replies (some never before translated), and Political Economy, which first outlined principles that were to become famous in the Social Contract. This is the first time that the works of 1755 and 1756 have been combined with careful commentary to show the coherence of Rousseau’s “political system.” The Second Discourse examines man in the true “state of nature,” prior to the formation of the first human societies, tracing the “hypothetical history” of political society and social inequality as they developed out of natural equality and independence.

About this title

From the Publisher:

6 1/8 x 9 1/4 trim. 3 illus. LC 92-53866

About the Author:

CHRISTOPHER KELLY is professor of political science at Boston College, translator of several other volumes in this series, and author of Rousseau’s Exemplary Life and Rousseau as Author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 087451603X
• ISBN 13: 9780874516036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242