Rousseau's political writings : new translations, interpretive notes, backgrounds, commentaries / translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella ; edited by Alan Ritter and Julia Conaway Bondanella.

Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton, c1988.

Descriptionx, 321 p. ; 21 cm.

Note: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: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire. David Hume. James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. Giacomo Casanova. Adam Smith. Thomas Paine. Immanuel Kant. Joseph de Maistre. John Adams. Benjamin Constant. Pierrs-Joseph Proudhon. Leo Tolstoy. -Commentaries: The political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Jean Starobinski. - Liberty and authority in On Social Contract / R. A. Leigh. - Rousseau and equality / Robert Misbet. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau and equality / Judith N. Shklar. - Rousseau's majoritarian democracy / Robert Paul Wolff. - A note on the complete abolition of political parties / Simone Weil. - Political participation and the creation of res publica / Benjamin R. Barber.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]) and index.

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