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A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man�s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies ...Show more
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Quintin Hoare (Translator); Christopher Bertram (Notes by, Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 d ...Show more
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views. Returning to Paris the philosopher d ...Show more
The Body Politic : Little Black Classic by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Class ...Show more
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Classics
This is translated by Peter Constantine Edited and with an new introduction by Leo Damrosch. 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted by politicians and philosophers alike, the power of this sentence continues to re ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
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