Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franklin Philip (Translator), Patrick Coleman (Editor)

Overview

Rousseau's 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 includes all Rousseau's own notes, and Patrick Coleman's introduction builds on recent key scholarship, considering particularly the relationship between political and aesthetic thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192669674
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	04/23/2009
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	737,351
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Franklin Philip is the prize-winning translator of numerous French texts. Patrick Coleman is the author of Rousseau's Political Imagination (1984).