Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Softcover

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316605442 ISBN 13: 9781316605448

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. This volume includes the essay on Political Economy, The Social Contract, and the extensive, late Considerations on the Government of Poland, as well as the important draft on The Right of War and a selection of his letters on various aspects of his political thought. The Social Contract, Rousseau's most comprehensive political work - he called it a 'small treatise' - was condemned on publication by both the civil and the ecclesiastical authorities in France as well as in Geneva, and warrants for its author's arrest were issued. Rousseau was forced to flee and it is during this period that he wrote some of his autobiographical works. This new edition features an expanded introduction, and an extensive editorial apparatus designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.

About this title

Book Description:

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. Featuring an expanded introduction, a new foreword and an extensive editorial apparatus, the new edition is designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.

About the Author:

Victor Gourevitch is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1316605442
• ISBN 13: 9781316605448
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 412