Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau's political writings: , and .
Synopsis
Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of Rousseau's life, selections from his , 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.
About the Author
Julia Conaway Bondanella is Associate Director of the Honors Division at Indiana University. She is the author of Petrarch's Visions and Their Renaissance Analogues and co-author of The Dictionary of Italian LiteratureAlan Ritter teaches at Trinity College and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is the author of The Political Thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Anarchism: A Theoretical Analysis.Julia Conaway Bondanella is Associate Director of the Honors Division at Indiana University. She is the author of Petrarch's Visions and Their Renaissance Analogues and co-author of The Dictionary of Italian Literature