| The Social Contract and the Discourses: Introduction by Alan Ryan Contributor(s): Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Author), Cole, G. D. H. (Translator), Ryan, Alan (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679423028 ISBN-13: 9780679423027 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1993 Annotation: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Two works in one volume |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: 93022368 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 5.29" W x 8.31" (1.29 lbs) 472 pages |
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| Publisher Description:
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 mile 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 |