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The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses
Series: Rethinking the Western Tradition
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See moreA collection of three of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's most important political writings - "The Social Contract"; "The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts)"; and "The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality)". There are essays by major scholars.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today.
This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings: The Social Contract and The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality). It presents essays by major scholars that shed light on the dimensions and implications of these texts.
Susan Dunn's introductory essay underlines the unity of Rousseau's political thought and explains why his ideas influenced Jacobin revolutionaries in France but repelled American revolutionaries across the ocean. Gita May's essay discusses Rousseau as a cultural critic. Robert Bellah explores Rousseau's attempt to resolve the tension between the individual's desire for freedom and the obligations that society imposes. David Bromwich analyses Rousseau as a psychologist of the human self. Conor Cruise O'Brien takes on the "noxious", "deranged" Rousseau, excoriated by Edmund Burke but admired by Robespierre and Thomas Jefferson.
Written from different, even opposing perspectives, these essays should convey a sense of the vital and contentious debate surrounding Rousseau and his legacy. For this edition, Susan Dunn has provided a new translation of the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and has revised a previously published translation of The Social Contract.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780300091410
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 February 2002
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Contributors:
- Contributions by David Bromwich
- Contributions by Robert N. Bellah
- Edited by Susan Dunn
- Contributions by Gita May
- Contributions by Conor Cruise O'Brien
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 304g
Pages: 328
About the Author
Susan Dunn, professor of Romance Languages and the History of Ideas at Williams College, is the author of many other books, including The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the French Political Imagination and Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light.
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