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Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persec ...Show more
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; P. N. Furbank
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library
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 ...Show more
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest recesses of the author's mind while narrating the farcical comedy of errors which was his life. P.N. Furbank is the author of E.M. Forster: A Life.
DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY by ROUSSEAU JEAN JACQUES
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our material but also of our psychologicalindependence - t ...Show more
Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Censored in its own time, the Social Contract (1762) remains a key source of democratic belief and is one of the classics of political theory. This new translation is fully annotated and indexed. The volume also contains the opening chapter of the manuscript version of the Contract, together with the lo ...Show more
Emile: Or Treatise on Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Books in Philosophy
In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher presented concepts that had a significant influence on the development of pedagogy, and yet many of his ideas still sound radical today. Written in reaction to the stultifying system of rote learning and memorisation prevalent througho ...Show more
Emile, or on Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Barbara Foxley
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Jean-jacques Rousseau : Fundamental Political Writings by Ian (TRN) David Lay (EDT); Johnston Matthew W. (EDT); Williams Jean-Jacques; Maguire Rousseau
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus. Each text has been newly translated and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors' introduction offers students ...Show more
Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Quintin Hoare (Translator); Christopher Bertram (Notes by, Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A lively new translation of Rousseau's best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" are the famous opening words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract, a work of political philosophy that has stirred vigorous debate ever since ...Show more