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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings Paperback - 2018

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Matthew W. Maguire (Editor); David Lay Williams (Editor)


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This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus.

Each text has been newly translated and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors' introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts, as well as an introduction to Rousseau's life and historical situation. The volume also includes annotated appendices that help students to explore the origins and influences of Rousseau's work, including excerpts from Hobbes, Pascal, Descartes, Mandeville, Diderot, Voltaire, Madame de Stal, Benjamin Constant, Joseph de Maistre, Kant, Hegel, and Engels.

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  • Title Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings
  • Author Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Matthew W. Maguire (Editor); David Lay Williams (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Broadview Press Inc
  • Date 2018-03-16
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781554812974 / 1554812976
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Political science, Political science - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018300055
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.011

About the author

Matthew W. Maguire is Associate Professor of History and Catholic Studies at DePaul University. He is the author of The Conversion of the Imagination: From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville (2006) and Carnal Spirit: The Revolutions of Charles Pguy (2018).

David Lay Williams is Professor of Political Science at DePaul University. He is the author of Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment (2007) and Rousseau's 'Social Contract' An Introduction (2014), as well as co-editor of The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept (2015).

Ian Johnston is Emeritus Professor at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia.

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