Unabridged English reproduction of On The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and translated by G. D. H. Cole. Its publication in 1762 lead to great discussion about 'what is government?' on both sides of the Atlantic, and is still essential...
The role of government and whether it is required was a great topic of discussion around the revolt against the French nobility at the time this book was written. The argument focuses around whether the idea of law and good conscious is written within...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712. He spent much of his life travelling around Switzerland and France, working variously as a footman, seminarist and tutor. His writings included entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie , the...
Narcissus, or The Lover of Himself is a play of staggering mediocrity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, better known as a social thinker than as a playwright, claims to have written it as a young man of eighteen, some twenty years before it was performed for King...
The translation of this early work by Jean Jacques Rousseau was originally published in 1889 and we are now republishing it. âProfession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicarâ was intended by Rousseau to be a defence of religion...
Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees on one thing: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This book brings together...