Description
| Product ID: | 9781316605448 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought |
| Title: | Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings |
| Authors: | Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Page Count: | 412 |
| Subjects: | History, History, Archaeology, History of ideas, Politics and government, Archaeology, History of ideas, Politics & government, Modern period, c 1500 onwards |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. Featuring an expanded introduction, a new foreword and an extensive editorial apparatus, the new edition is designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts. A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau''s major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. This volume includes the essay on Political Economy, The Social Contract, and the extensive, late Considerations on the Government of Poland, as well as the important draft on The Right of War and a selection of his letters on various aspects of his political thought. The Social Contract, Rousseau''s most comprehensive political work - he called it a ''small treatise'' - was condemned on publication by both the civil and the ecclesiastical authorities in France as well as in Geneva, and warrants for its author''s arrest were issued. Rousseau was forced to flee and it is during this period that he wrote some of his autobiographical works. This new edition features an expanded introduction, and an extensive editorial apparatus designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-11-08 |
