Rousseau's political writings : new translations, interpretive notes, backgrounds, commentaries
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Bok · Engelsk · 1988
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| Utgitt | New York : Norton , c1988
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| Omfang | X, 321 s.
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| Opplysninger | Discourse on inequality ; Discourse on political economy ; On social contract. - Rousseau's political writings: Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men; Discourse on political economy; On social contract or principles of political right -- Backgrounds: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a biographical sketch; From Rousseau's Confessions; Reactions to Rousseau -- Commentaries: Political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Jean Starobinski; Liberty and authority in On social contract / R.A. Leigh; Rousseau & equality / Robert Nisbet; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and equality / Judith N. Shklar; Rousseau/s majoritarian democracy / Robert Paul Wolff; Note on the complete abolition of political parties / Simone Weil; Political participation and the creation of res publica / Benjamin R. Barber.. - This [book] includes the three most important of Rousseau's political writings: Discourse on inequality, Discourse on political economy, and On social contract ... As background to these works, [it] provides a sketch of Rousseau's life, selections from his Confessions, and comments on Rousseau's work and character from such ... contemporaries and early critics as Voltaire, Hume, Boswell and Johnson, Paine, Kant, and Proudhon. A section of "Commentaries" includes assessments of Rousseau's political thought by scholars and critics.
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| ISBN | 0393956512
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