num_pages: 190
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: French
title: On the Social Contract: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; Discourse on Political Economy
titlecomplete: On the Social Contract: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; Discourse on Political Economy (English and French Edition)
genres: History, Classics, Theory, Economics, Philosophy, France, Politics, Political Science, Social Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 382
publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc