Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men: by Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Related Documents / Edition 1

by Jean Jacques Rousseau, Helena Rosenblatt

Overview

Discover why Rousseaus criticisms of human nature, political hierarchy, and private property were so controversial in his time yet later hailed as a foundation of democracy in this edition of Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312468422
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	10/13/2010
Series:	Bedford Cultural Editions Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

HELENA ROSENBLATT (Ph.D., Columbia) is a professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A specialist in European intellectual history, she is the author of Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (2008) and Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749-1762 (1997), and she is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Constant (2009).

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: The Life and Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseaus Beginnings: The Road to the Second Discourse
The Origins of Political Authority Before Rousseau
Rousseaus Bombshell: The Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality
The State of Nature
The Steps to Society
The Invention of Property
Anthropology, Psychology, and Evolutionary Biology
Rousseau and Gender
Reception of the Second Discourse
“Citizen of Geneva”: The Dedication
Rousseaus Later Life and Legacy
Rousseau and the French Revolution
The Social Contract and Its Paradoxes

PART TWO: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva
Dedication
Preface
Notice about the Notes
First Part
Second Part
Rousseaus Notes

PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS
1. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Politics Drawn from Holy Scripture, 1709
2. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651
3. Samuel Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen, 1673
4. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1690
5. George-Louis Leclerc Buffon, Discourse on the Nature of Animals, 1753
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the Social Contract, 1762
7. Maximilien Robespierre, Eulogies to Rousseau, 1790s
8. Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics, 1810

Appendixes
A Jean-Jacques Rousseau Chronology (1712-1794)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography

Index