Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On Social Contract (Norton Critical Editions)

Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of Rousseau "s life, selections from his Confessions, and comments on Rousseau "s work and character from such illustrious contemporaries and early critics as Voltaire, Hume, Boswell and Johnson, Paine, Kant, and Proudhon. Commentaries includes assessments of Rousseau "s political thought by a wide variety of scholars and critics including Judith Shklar, Robert Nisbet, Simone Weil, and Benjamin R. Barber.Jean Jacques Rousseau is the author of 'Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On Social Contract (Norton Critical Editions)', published 1987 under ISBN 9780393956511 and ISBN 0393956512.