| Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, on Social Contract Contributor(s): Rousseau, Jean Jacques (Author), Bondanella, Julia Conaway (Editor), Ritter, Alan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393956512 ISBN-13: 9780393956511 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $24.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1987 Annotation: 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. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Political Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 320 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Lexile Measure: 1490 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.18" W x 8.4" (0.77 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bondanella, Julia Conaway: - Julia Conaway Bondanella is Associate Director of the Honors Division at Indiana University. She is the author of Petrarch's Visions and Their Renaissance Analogues and co-author of The Dictionary of Italian LiteratureRitter, Alan: - Alan Ritter teaches at Trinity College and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is the author of The Political Thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Anarchism: A Theoretical Analysis. |