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Jean-Jacques Rousseau


P.N. Furbank is Visiting Professor in Literature at the Open University and author of E. M. Forster: A Life. Other publications include Samuel Butler: 1835-1902, Italo Svevo: the Man and the Writer, Unholy Pleasures: the Idea of Social Class and (with W. R. Owens) The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe.

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The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine

eBook | 560 pages | Modern Library | Philosophy - Modern; Political Science - History & Theory; Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects
978-0-679-64539-9 (0-679-64539-X)

March 26, 2013 | $15.99

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The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edited by Leo Damrosch, Translated by Peter Constantine

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Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
 
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and...

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The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine

Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Modern Library | Philosophy - Modern; Political Science - History & Theory; Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects
978-0-8129-8038-7 (0-8129-8038-7)

March 26, 2013 | $21.00

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The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edited by Leo Damrosch, Translated by Peter Constantine

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ISBN: 9780812980387
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Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
 
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Social Contract and The Discourses

Hardcover | 472 pages | Everyman's Library | Political Science - Social Policy
978-0-679-42302-7 (0-679-42302-8)

October 26, 1993 | $27.00

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The Social Contract and The Discourses
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679423027
Our Price: $27.00
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Two works in one volume

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first, and the most eloquent and versatile, of that extraordinary line of radical modern thinkers who aimed their disenchantment at the very roots of the human social order and thereby forever reshaped the way we deal with one another. Of...


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Confessions

Hardcover | pages | Everyman's Library | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-679-40998-4 (0-679-40998-X)

June 2, 1992 | $27.00

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Confessions
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679409984
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Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attention to his startlingly...


              
              



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