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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings, EPUB eBook

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings EPUB

Edited by Matthew W. Maguire, David Lay Williams

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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 Rousseaus life and historical situation. The volume also includes annotated appendices that help students to explore the origins and influences of Rousseaus 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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