Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Chronology; A brief guide to further reading; A note on the texts; A note on the translations; A note on the editorial notes; Discourse on Political Economy; Of the Social Contract; Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Extract from the early version of Of The Social Contract known as the Geneva Manuscript; The State of War; Considerations on the Government of Poland; Letter to D'Offreville; Letter to Usteri; Letter to Mirabeau; Letter to Franquieres; List of abbreviations and textual conventions; Editorial notes; Index of editors, translators and annotators; General index.

Promotional Information

A comprehensive 1997 anthology of Rousseau's work containing The Social Contract, his most famous single work.

About the Author

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Reviews

"...Gourevitch serves Rousseau and hence students very well." Pamela K. Jensen, Review of Metaphysics