The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses,9780300091410

The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses

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ISBN13: 9780300091410
ISBN10: 0300091419
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2002-02-08
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

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.

Susan Dunn's introductory essay underlines the unity of Rousseau's political thought and explains why his ideas influenced Jacobin revolutionaries in France but repelled American revolutionaries across the ocean. Gita May's essay discusses Rousseau as cultural critic. Robert N. Bellah explores Rousseau's attempt to resolve the tension between the individual's desire for freedom and the obligations that society imposes. David Bromwich analyzes Rousseau as a psychologist of the human self. And Conor Cruise O'Brien takes on the "noxious, "

Table of Contents

Susan Dunn: Introduction: Rousseau's Political Triptych 1(35)
Chronology of Rousseau's Life 36
The First Discourse: Discourse on the Sciences and Arts
43
The Second Discourse: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Mankind
69
The Social Contract
149
Rethinking The First and Second Discourses and The Social Contract
Gita May: Rousseau, Cultural Critic
257
Robert N. Bellah: Rousseau on Society and the Individual
266
David Bromwich: Rousseau and the Self without Property
288
Conor Cruise O'Brien: Rousseau, Robespierre, Burke, Jefferson, and the French Revolution
301

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