Rousseau Selections (The Great Philosophers)

Politics & Social Sciences

Rousseau, Jean­Jacques

Philosophy

Pearson College Div

Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. This text refers to a previous edition of this title.

Social Contract

Free Press

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 describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the manner in which he has come to terms with his alienation, as he walks around Paris, gazing at plants, day-dreaming and finding comfort in the virtues of solitude and the natural world. Meditative, amusing and lyrical, this is a fascinating exploration of Rousseau's thought as he looks back over his life, searching to justify his actions, to defend himself against his critics and to elaborate upon his philosophy.

Reveries of the Solitary Walker

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

HarperCollins (paper)

Rousseau, Jean Jacques; Tr. By Victor Gourevitch, First And Second Discourses, The: Together With The Replies To Cr

The First and Second Discourses Together with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Language

Perennial / HarperCollins

First and Second Discourse, Together With Replies to the Critics and Essays on the Origin of Languages

Reference

Harpercollins

The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Vintage Classics

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 of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood, through the development of his philosophical and political ideas, his struggle against the French authorities and exile from France following the publication of Emile. Depicting a life of adventure, persecution, paranoia, and brilliant achievement, The Confessions is a landmark work by one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment, which was a direct influence upon the work of Proust, Goethe and Tolstoy among others. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Confessions (Penguin Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Penguin Classics

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains" These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Social Contract (Penguin Books for Philosophy)

History & Criticism

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 become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau’s political and social arguments in the Discourse were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Cranston, Maurice

Humor

Two hundred years before Jean Piaget did a twenty year longitudinal study of his children, Rousseau did this longitudinal study of an imaginary child. This novel is a story of how Rousseau would have raised such a child placed in his charge. As full-time governor of Emile, Rousseau begins his study, not with the intent of discovering how the boy would grow into manhood, but with the conscious intent of shaping and controlling Emile's maturation.

Emile: or On Education

United States

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Rousseau Selections (The Great Philosophers)

Social Contract

Reveries of the Solitary Walker

The First and Second Discourses Together with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Language

First and Second Discourse, Together With Replies to the Critics and Essays on the Origin of Languages

The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Confessions (Penguin Classics)

The Social Contract (Penguin Books for Philosophy)

A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics)

Emile: or On Education

Books by Rousseau, Jean­Jacques

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Rousseau Selections (The Great Philosophers)

Social Contract

Reveries of the Solitary Walker

The First and Second Discourses Together with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Language

First and Second Discourse, Together With Replies to the Critics and Essays on the Origin of Languages

The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Confessions (Penguin Classics)

The Social Contract (Penguin Books for Philosophy)

A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics)

Emile: or On Education

Books by Rousseau, JeanJacques

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