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The Social Contract and The Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract and The Discourses

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Introduction by Alan Ryan
Translated by G. D. H. Cole

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Introduction by Alan Ryan
Translated by G. D. H. Cole

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Part of Everyman’s Library Classics Series

Hardcover $26.00

Oct 26, 1993 | 472 Pages

The Social Contract and The Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hardcover
Oct 26, 1993 | 472 Pages

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About The Social Contract and The Discourses

 

Two works in one volume

 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first, and the most eloquent and versatile, of that extraordinary line of radical modern thinkers who aimed their disenchantment at the very roots of the human social order and thereby forever reshaped the way we deal with one another. Of Rousseau’s many contributions to the tradition he inaugurated, the one for which he is most revered and that makes these pages glow with conviction is his passionate indignation about anything that trammels individual freedom.

 

This revised edition of G. D. H. Cole’s celebrated translation includes an appendix of sections from the first manuscript draft of The Social Contract and the passage in Rousseau’s novel Émile in which he summarizes its argument, along with Cole’s original preface, which has itself become a classic.

 

Translated by G. D. H. Cole

Revised and augmented by J. H. Brumfitt and John C. Hall

Also by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings
The Social Contract
Confessions
A Discourse on Inequality
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About Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot’s Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile. Rousseau was also a widely loved composer and philosopher. His philosophy had… More about Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Product Details

Category: Domestic Politics | Nonfiction Classics

Hardcover | $26.00
Published by Everyman’s Library
Oct 26, 1993 | 472 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679423027

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“The Social Contract has beguiled generations of readers since its first publication in 1762 . . . In any competition for the best-known line in political literature The Social Contract’s ‘man is born free but
is everywhere in chains’ holds a commanding lead.”
—from the Introduction by Alan Ryan

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