The Social Contract and the First and Second Discourses: And, the First and Second Discourses - Couverture souple

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

 
9780300091410: The Social Contract and the First and Second Discourses: And, the First and Second Discourses
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300091419 ISBN 13 : 9780300091410
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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)--and 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 cultural critic. Robert N. Bellah explores Rousseau's attempt to resolve the tension between the individual's desire for freedom and the obligations that society imposes. David Bromwich analyzes Rousseau as a psychologist of the human self. And 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 lucid essays 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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300091419
ISBN 13 
9780300091410
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Éditeur
Dunn Susan
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780300091403: The Social Contract and the First and Second Discourses: And, the First and Second Discourses

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ISBN 10 :  0300091400 ISBN 13 :  9780300091403
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2002
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