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A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; P. N. Furbank
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library
Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attention ...Show more
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest recesses of the author's mind while narrating the farcical comedy of errors which was his life. P.N. Furbank is the author of E.M. Forster: A Life.
Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Quintin Hoare (Translator); Christopher Bertram (Notes by, Introduction by)
Category: Non-Fiction
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 ...Show more
On The Social Contract by G. D. H. Jean-Jacques; Cole Rousseau
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau's influential 1762 work, On the Social Contract, a milestone of political science and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and social science. A progressive work, it inspired worldwide political reform ...Show more
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Donald A. Cress (Editor, Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau's influential 1762 work, On the Social Contract, a milestone of political science and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and social science. A progressive work, it inspired worldwide political reform ...Show more
The Body Politic : Little Black Classic by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Class ...Show more
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This translation first appeared in a privately printed edition in 1904 (the translator remains anonymous). With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellec ...Show more
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Non-Fiction
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 years ...Show more
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Non-Fiction
This is translated by Peter Constantine Edited 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 1762. Quoted by politicians and philosophers alike, the power of this sentence continues to re ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these 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, o ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more