Contents
Preface
Translator’s Note
- Rousseau’s Political Writings
- Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men
- Discourse on Political Economy
- On Social Contract or Principles of Political Right
- Backgrounds
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Biographical Sketch
- From Rousseau’s Confessions
- REACTIONS TO ROUSSEAU
- François Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- David Hume
- James Boswell and Samuel Johnson
- Giacomo Casanova
- Adam Smith
- Thomas Paine
- Immanuel Kant
- Joseph de Maistre
- John Adams
- Benjamin Constant
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Leo Tolstoy
- Commentaries
- Jean Starobinski • The Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- R. A. Leigh • Liberty and Authority in On Social Contract
- Robert Nisbet • Rousseau • Equality
- Judith N. Shklar • Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Equality
- Robert Paul Wolff • Rousseau’s Majoritarian Democracy
- Simone Weil • A Note on the Complete Abolition of Political Parties
- Benjamin R. Barber • Political Participation and the Creation of Res Publica
- Bibliography
- Index
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