This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and…

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Studies of Rousseau generally concentrate on the social-theoretical rather than the institutional aspects of his thought. This work offers a complementary perspective, focusing on Rousseau’s problematic relationship to institutions and…

Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time-must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of…

Widely considered the first modern autobiography, the Confessions influenced memoirs, fiction, poetry, and philosophy. Rousseau’s opposition to inequality and emphasis on individual worth constituted a major contribution to progressive social…

This Wordsworth Classics 'The Best of Jean-Jacques Rousseau' collection includes the following books:- Confessions; Social Contract

In this text Strong examines Rousseau’s fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics and…

In this first single-volume English-language biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Damrosch mines the influential philosophers letters, memoirs, and writings to expose the eccentricities of a man who prefigured the modern mind.