On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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This new edition features a revision by Donald A. Cress of his bestselling 1987 translation of On the Social Contract t ogether with Introduction, footnotes, and chronology by David Wootton, one of our leading historians of the Enlightenment.

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On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Features a new Introduction, and annotation, by David Wootton.

Donald A. Cress is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin–Parkside. His translations include Rousseau's The Basic Political Writings, Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, and Descartes' Discourse on Method—all published by Hackett.

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York. His translations of Machiavelli: Selected Political Writings, More's Utopia, and Voltaire's Candide—as well as his Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England, his edition of Locke: Political Writings, and his The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers—are also available from Hackett. He is also the author of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison (Harvard University Press).

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ISBN 13 9781624667855
ISBN 10 1624667856
Title On the Social Contract
Author Jean Jacques Rousseau
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Year published 2019-03-15
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.