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The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with a new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the... -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781554812974
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $20.05This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus.Each text has been newly... -
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781857150841
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest recesses of the author's mind while narrating the farcical comedy of errors which was his life. P.N... -
Emile: or on Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) presents concepts that had a significant influence on the development of pedagogy in the... -
A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65In 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... -
The Government of Poland Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780915145959
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.79"The Government of Poland is the only finished work in which Rousseau himself dons the mantle of legislator, applying the principles of the Social Contract to the real world around him. Poland... -
The Body Politic Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780241252017
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $4.65'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... -
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780141018881
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
On the Origin of Language by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780226730127
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393441246Author Jean Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781398840331
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398840331Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat HardbackPage Count 160I -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781784287160
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784287160Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 160 -
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781624667855
Booksplease Price: $16.94This new edition features a revision by Donald A. Cress of his bestselling 1987 translation of On the Social Contract together with Introduction, footnotes, and chronology by David Wootton, one of... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780879754440
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Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman, Tr. from the Fr. of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau 9780461791501
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461791501Author Jean Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 162 -
The Social Contract And The Discources by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781857151626
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.72THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three it is safe to say that only THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is... -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780872201507
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.99Donald Cress's highly regarded translation, based on the critical Pleiade edition of 1964, is here issued with a lively introduction by James Miller, who brings into sharp focus the cultural and... -
Julie; or, The New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9789360008758
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780199563272
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of... -
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780872201620
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.79First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on... -
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view... -
Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar by Jean Jacques Rousseau 9781479419098
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The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780300091410
Booksplease Price: $22.43Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings... -
Jean Jacques Rousseau And Education From Nature by Gabriel Compayri 9781410203311
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Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780801490712
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.33This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing... -
Emilius and Sophia: Or, a New System of Education: Volume 3 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780461791211
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461791211Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 306 -
Green Henry: Annotated Edition by Gottfried Keller
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.83The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle Anna and the proud and sensual Judith, is one of the most outstanding and... -
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution by James Swenson 9780804735551
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The Confessions of Rousseau. Abridged from the Ed. of 1796: Volume 2 by Jean Jacques Rousseau 9780371603604
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371603604Author Jean Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 180 -
How to Create the Perfect Wife: The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman Wendy Moore 9780753828953
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41From the No.1 bestselling author of WEDLOCK. The Georgian scandal of one gentleman, two orphans and an experiment to create the ideal wife.This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means,... -
Rousseau Celine Spector 9781509516490
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated debate in contemporary political theory. In this book,... -
Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On the Social Contract, The State of War by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.75This substantially revised new edition of Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings features a brilliant new Introduction by David Wootton, a revision by Donald A. Cress of his own 1987 translation of... -
Edges of the State by John Protevi
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $10.88Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them,... -
Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $23.34In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On... -
Two Planks and a Passion by Roland Huntford 9781441134011
Booksplease Price: $28.14Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This is brilliantly brought to life in this engaging book. Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the... -
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 9781802061567
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the... -
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Professor Robert C. Solomon
Booksplease Price: $53.81What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword...