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The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of... (more)
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The Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, "The Confessions" is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his "Confessions" he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his... (more)
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Emile
or, On Education
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A clear, readable, and highly engrossing translation of Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young.
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The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the manner in which he has... (more)
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The Basic Political Writings
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Donald A. Cress
"The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers of courses in political philosophy and the history of political theory..." -- Raymon M. Lemos, Teaching Philosophy "The single most comprehensive, reliable and economical collection of Rousseau's explicitly political writings." -- Michael Franz, Loyola College
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Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
by David Edmonds
In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency. And so Rousseau came to England with his beloved dog, Sultan, and willingly took refuge with his more respected counterpart.... (more)
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Longing for Total Revolution (Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy)
by Bernard Yack
Bernard Yack seeks to identify and account for the development of a form of discontent held in common by a large number of European philosophers and social critics, including Rousseau, Schiller, the young Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Yack contends that these individuals, despite their profound disagreements, shared new perspectives on human freedom and history, and that these perspectives gave their... (more)
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City of Darkness, City of Light
by Marge Piercy
"FAST-PACED . . . PIERCY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO SHAPED THE REVOLUTION." --San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle In her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts. Defiantly independent Claire Lacombe tests her theory:... (more)
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Philosophy for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book)
by Richard Osborne
A witty illustrated introduction to Western philosophy samples the wisdom of 2,500 philosophers, offering definitions of such terms as "Platonic forms" and "Irrationalism." By the author of Society and Sociology of Literature. Original.
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Julie, or the New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps (Collected Writings of Rousseau) (v. 6)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A novel in which Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm.
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Evolution of the Social Contract
by Brian Skyrms
In this highly readable book, Brian Skyrms, a recognized authority on game and decision theory, investigates traditional problems of the social contract in terms of evolutionary dynamics. Game theory is skillfully employed to offer new interpretations of a wide variety of social phenomena, including justice, mutual aid, commitment, convention and meaning. The book is not technical and requires no special... (more)
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Rousseau and The Social Contract (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks)
by Christopher Bertram
Rousseau's Social Contract is a benchmark in political philosophy that has inspired and influenced moral and political thought since publication and is widely studied for this reason. This GuideBook examines this text, making it vital reading.
Rousseau's Social Contract: A Conceptual AnalysisJohn B., Jr. Noone
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Rousseau's Social Contract: A Conceptual Analysis
by John B. Noone
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War One
by Roger Shattuck
Portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism.
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Casanova in Bohemia
by Andrei Codrescu
Beloved NPR commentator and popular author Andrei Codrescu makes a stunning return to historical fiction, detailing the adventurous life and erotic times of the famed illuminist Giacomo Casanova.In his national bestseller The Blood Countess, Andrei Codrescu brought to life the bloodthirsty royal Elizabeth Bathory, who embodied nearly all the contradictions of the seventeenth century. Now he depicts the... (more)
Collected Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau (The Giant International Series)Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Collected Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau (The Giant International Series)
by Jean Jacques Rousseau
GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD VOLUME 38 MONTESQUIEU ROUSSEAUBaron De/Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Montesquieu
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GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD VOLUME 38 MONTESQUIEU ROUSSEAU
by Baron De/Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Montesquieu
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Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
by Michael Sonenscher
This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and economics of the revolution can be combined to form a genuinely historical narrative of its content and course. To... (more)
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The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
by Robert Zaretsky
The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume unraveled, a volley of rancorous letters was fired off, then quickly published and devoured by aristocrats, intellectuals, and common readers alike. Everyone... (more)
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Du contrat social, livres I et II
by JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU