Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Edited by Victor Gourevitch

• ISBN13: 9780521424462
• ISBN10: 0521424461
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Volume II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract. The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau to flee. In exile he wrote both autobiographical and political works.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau	xxxii
A brief guide to further reading	xxxv
A note on the texts	xlii
A note on the translations	xliv
A note on the editorial notes and index	liv
Discourse on Political Economy	3	(36)
Of the Social Contract	39	(114)
Book I	41	(16)
Book II	57	(25)
Book III	82	(39)
Book IV	121	(32)
From the early version of the Social Contract known as the Geneva Manuscript: Bk. I, ch. 2; from Bk. II, ch. 4	153	(9)
The State of War	162	(15)
Considerations on the Government of Poland	177	(109)
Selected Letters
Letter to D'Offreville	261	(4)
Letter to Usteri	265	(3)
Letter to Mirabeau	268	(4)
Letter to Franquieres	272	(14)
List of abbreviations and textual conventions	286	(4)
Editorial notes	290	(33)
Index of editors, translators, and annotators	323	(2)
General index	325