The Social Contract
Books | Political Science / History & Theory
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gita May
Robert Neelly Bellah
David Bromwich
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings - The Social Contract and The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality) - and presents essays by major scholars that shed light on the dimensions and implications of these texts.
