The Social Contract (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

On The Social Contract (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Pevná vazba)

Unabridged English value reproduction of On The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and translated by G. D. H. Cole. It's publication in 1762 lead to great discussion about 'what is government' on both sides of the Atlantic, and is still essential reading today. How much government is too

On the Social Contract (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback / softback)

Social Contract (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback / softback)

The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

With an Introduction by Derek Matravers.In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each

Social Contract (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback / softback)

Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since - seen as both a blue-print for political terror and as a fundamental statement of

Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

A lively new translation of Rousseau's best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' are the famous opening words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract, a work of political philosophy that has stirred vigorous debate ever since

The Social Contract (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chainsThese are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact,

Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, on Social Contract (Rousseau Jean Jacques)(Paperback)

Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of Rousseau's life, selections from his Confessions, and comments on Rousseau's work and character from such illustrious contemporaries and early critics as Voltaire, Hume, Boswell and Johnson, Paine, Kant, and Proudhon. Commentaries

Social Contract (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of the general will as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (Damrosch Leo)(Paperback)

The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of significance by age thirty, Rousseau seemed an unlikely candidate to become one of the most influential

Confessions (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback / softback)

Rousseau (Spector)(Paperback)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated debate in contemporary political theory. In this book, C line Spector, one of the world's foremost experts on Rousseau's thought, provides an accessible

A Discourse on Inequality (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

In A Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as

Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback / softback)

Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with an new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in

Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second

Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

Ten meditations written in the two years before Rousseau's death in 1778 provide an excellent introduction to the thinker's complex world, expressing in its full force the agony of isolation and alienation For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in

Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

Rousseau's last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and nature. The Reveries are an important complement to Rousseau's other philosophical and

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our material but also of our psychological

Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings (Gourevitch Victor)(Paperback)

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

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction (Wokler Robert)(Paperback)

One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the

The Confessions (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three

Emile (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

A foundational text of Western education, this 1762 treatise served as a model for a new approach to teaching during the French Revolution. Emile recounts a boy's education, and Rousseau considered it the most important of his writings. With its theories on the retention of innate human goodness

The Racial Contract (Mills Charles W.)(Paperback)

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged contract has shaped a system of