Social Contract, Discourse on the Virtue Most Necessary for a Hero, Political Fragments, and Geneva Manuscript

ISBN-13:	9780874516463
Publisher:	Dartmouth College Press
Publication date:	06/01/1994
Series:	Collected Writings of Rousseau Series , #4
Edition description:	Trans. from the French
Pages:	306
Sales rank:	934,290
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

Contains the Social Contract, as well as the first English translation of Rousseau's early Discourse on the Virtue Most Necessary for a Hero, numerous previously untranslated political fragments, and the first draft of the Social Contract (the so-called Geneva Manuscript). By placing Rousseau's famous exposition of "political right" and the "general will" in the context of his preparatory drafts, the editors provide significant insight into the formation of one of the most important and influential works in Western political thought.