num_pages: 148
description: 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."
language: English
title: The Social Contract, a Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and a Discourse on Political Economy
titlecomplete: The Social Contract, a Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and a Discourse on Political Economy
genres: Political Science, Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Theory, Classics, Social Science, Nonfiction, History, France
ratings_count: 382
publisher: Digireads.Com