Politic Writings

Klappentext 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 includes assessments of Rousseau's political thought by a wide variety of scholars and critics including Judith Shklar, Robert Nisbet, Simone Weil, and Benjamin R. Barber. Zusammenfassung This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau’s political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract.

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• Authors: Et Al, Alan Ritter, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Assisted by: Julia Conaway Bondanella (Editor), Julia Conaway (Indiana University) Bondanella (Editor), Alan Ritter (Editor), Alan (University of Connecticut School of Law) Ritter (Editor), Julia Conaway Bondanella (Translation), Julia Conaway (Indiana University) Bondanella (Translation)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.01.1988
• EAN: 9780393956511
• ISBN: 978-0-393-95651-1
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education