Discourse on Inequality

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Jacques Rousseau Klappentext 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 societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau's political and social arguments in the Discourse were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Zusammenfassung Demonstrates how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Discourse on InequalityForeword Introduction Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men Rousseau's Notes Abbreviations used in Editor's Introduction and Notes Editor's Notes

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Cranston, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Assisted by: Maurice Cranston (Introduction), Cranston Maurice (Introduction), Maurice Cranston (Translation), Cranston Maurice (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.1984
• EAN: 9780140444391
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044439-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; PHILOSOPHY / Social, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social discrimination & inequality, Political science and theory, Social discrimination and equal treatment