Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: emile
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 1419117688
ISBN-13: 9781419117688

Our inner conflicts are caused by these contradictions. Drawn this way by nature and that way by man, compelled to yield to both forces, we make a compromise and reach neither goal. We go through life, struggling and hesitating, and die before we have found peace, useless alike to ourselves and to others.

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Book Jungle
Keywords: emile
Number of Pages: 548
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1604249811
ISBN-13: 9781604249811

The MacMahons are the central characters and even more so when Helen the wife & mother disappears..everyone assumes that she has drowned in the lake.Thus beginsa tangles,touching,& sometimes tragis story of love,loss & misunderstanding.

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: agora, paperback, editions, theatre, alembert, arts, letter, politics
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1968-06
List price: $15.50
ISBN-10: 0801490715
ISBN-13: 9780801490712

This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing some of the most sensitive literary criticism ever written (especially of Molière), the book is an excellent introduction to the principles of classical political thought. It demonstrates the paradoxes of Rousseau’s though and clearly displays the temperament that led him to repudiate the hopes of the Enlightenment.

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, contract, social
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1968-06-30
List price: $9.00
ISBN-10: 0140442014
ISBN-13: 9780140442014

’Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains’ - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or ’social contract’, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: edtions, thrift, dover, contract, social
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2003-02-13
List price: $2.50
ISBN-10: 0486426920
ISBN-13: 9780486426921

"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Thus begins Rousseau’s influential 1762 work, in which he argues that all government is fundamentally flawed and that modern society is based on a system of inequality. The philosopher posits that a good government can justify its need for individual compromises and that promoting social settings in which people transcend their immediate appetites and desires leads to the development of self-governing, self-disciplined beings. A milestone of political science, these essays are essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: inequality, origin, discourse
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 1992-11-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0872201503
ISBN-13: 9780872201507

In Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. His sweeping account of humanity’s social and political development epitomizes the innovative boldness of the Enlightenment, and it is one of the most provocative and influential works of the eighteenth century. This new translation by prize-winning translator Franklin Philip includes all of Rousseau’s own notes, and Patrick Coleman’s introduction builds on recent key scholarship, considering particularly the relationship

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: writings, political, basic
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 1987-11-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0872200477
ISBN-13: 9780872200470

’The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers of courses in political philosophy and the history of political theory...’ - Raymon M Lemos, "Teaching Philosophy".