The Political Writings Of Jean Jacques Rousseau Edited From The Original Mss And Authentic Editions Introduction Discours Sur Linegalite Lettre A M Philopolis Economie Politique Ltat De Guerre Fragments Writings Of Saint Pi Err Droit Naturel Diderot Contrat Social First Version

Author : Jean Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483307810
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Jean Jacques Rousseau and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Vol. 1 of 2: Edited From the Original Manuscripts and Authentic Editions, With Introductions and Notes Of the pieces not included in the collected Works the most important are the fragment, L'e'tat de guerre, the fragments relating to the earlier chapters of the Contrat social, and the earlier version of the Contrat social itself; but the treatise on Corsica, hitherto known only in a very faulty text, is not far behind. Their main significance lies in the proof they offer that the idea of Contract is, at most, no more than a secondary element in Rousseau's contribu tion to political theory; that he hesitated long before adopting it; and that, after he had done so, he again allowed it to be thrust into the background by the ideas of environment and historical tradition which, in the first instance, he drew from Montesquieu. A discussion of these questions will be found in the general Introduction and in that to the first version of the Central social. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.