Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings (pbk)

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ISBN: 9781316605547

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men—the so-called First and Second Discourses—together with Rousseau's extensive Replies to critics of these Discourses; the Essay on the Origin of Languages; the Letter to Voltaire on Providence; as well as several minor but illuminating writings - the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book.