Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A strikingly original inquiry into politics and human nature, the Discourse presents a theoretical view of people in a pre-social condition and the ensuing effects of civilization. The author develops a theory of evolution that prefigures Darwinism and encompasses aspects of ethics, sociology, and epistemology. One of the most influential works of the Enlightenment.

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state.

Confessions

Rousseau describes his thoughts as he walked around Paris, trying to understand himself, remembering and rejustifying the actions of his past, and attempting to outline the components of happiness

Reveries of the Solitary Walker

Toplum sözleşmesi

دين الفطرة

P. D. Jimack

G. D. H. Cole

Inspired by ancient Greek city states, Rousseau searched for a way which states of his day could be equally representative Holding men in wretched subservience, feudalism–alongside religion–was a powerful force in the eighteenth century. Self-serving monarchic social systems, which collectively reduced common people to servitude, were now attacked by Enlightenment philosophers, of whom Rouseau was a leading light. His masterpiece, The Social Contract, profoundly influenced the subsequent development of society and remains provocative in a modern age of continuing widespread vested interest. This is the most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, index and chronology of Rousseau's life and times.

The Social Contract and Discourses

'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".

Basic Political Writings

In A Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau’s political and social arguments in the Discourse were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

A Discourse on Inequality

'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

The Body Politic

Christopher Kelly

Roger D. Masters

A novel in which Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm

Letters of Two Lovers who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps

Julie, Or, The New Heloise

‫العقد الاجتماعي أو مبادئ الفلسفة‬

دراسة

أصل التفاوت بين الناس

Les reveries du promeneur solitaire

‫أصل التفاوت بين الناس‬

العقد الإجتماعي أو مبادئ الحقوق السياسية

The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)

El contrato social

Paru en 1755, le Discorns sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes peut être considéré comme la matrice de l'oeuvre morale et politique de Rousseau : il y affirme sa stature de philosophe, l'originalité de sa voix, la force de son "système". Résoudre le problème posé par l'Académie de Dijon, "quelle est la source de l'inégalité parmi les hommes et si elle est autorisée par la loi naturelle ?" en d'autres termes expliquer que riches et puissants dominent leurs semblables sur lesquels ils n'ont pas de réelle supériorité, exige aux yeux de Rousseau de poser à nouveaux frais la question "qu'est-ce que l'homme ?". Pour cela, il faut comprendre comment s'est formée sa "nature actuelle", si éloignée de ce que serait son état de nature : "Si je me suis étendu si longtemps sur la supposition de cette condition primitive, c'est qu'ayant d'anciennes erreurs et des préjugés invétérés à détruire, j'ai cru devoir creuser jusqu'à la racine..."

Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes

العقد الاجتماعي، أو، مبادئ الحقوق السياسية

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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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