Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Second Discourse), Polemics, and Political Economy (Hardcover, Trans. from the French ed.)

Includes the Second Discourse (complete with the author's extensive notes), contemporary critiques by Voltaire, Diderot, Bonnet, and LeRoy, Rousseau's replies (some never before translated), and Political Economy, which first outlined principles that were to become famous in the Social Contract. This is the first time that the works of 1755 and 1756 have been combined with careful commentary to show the coherence of Rousseau's "political system." The Second Discourse examines man in the true "state of nature," prior to the formation of the first human societies, tracing the "hypothetical history" of political society and social inequality as they developed out of natural equality and independence.

General

Imprint:	Dartmouth College Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1993
First published:	1993
Translators:	Christopher Kelly • Roger D. Masters
Authors:	Jean Jacques Rousseau
Translators:	Terence Marshall • Judith R Bush
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
Edition:	Trans. from the French ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-87451-603-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	0-87451-603-X
Barcode:	9780874516036

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