Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; A brief guide to further reading; A note on the texts; A note on the translations; A note on the editorial notes and index; Discourse on the Science and Arts or First Discourse; Preface; Part I; Part II; Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men or Second Discourse; Epistle dedicatory; Preface; Exordium; Part I; Part II; Rousseau's notes; Letter to Voltaire; Essay on the Origin of Languages; Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book; Discourse on the Virtue a Hero Most Needs or On Heroic Virtue; List of abbreviations and textual conventions; Editorial notes; Index of editors, translators and annotators; General index.

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This two volume collection forms a comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings.

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"...Gourevitch serves Rousseau and hence students very well." Pamela K. Jensen, Review of Metaphysics