Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, on Social Contract: A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau s political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract.

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.