"Paper" and other early political works

Author: (French) Rousseau
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Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Features: The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive collection of Rousseau's political writings in English. This first volume contains the earlier writings, the First and Second Discourses, the publication of which signalled the power and challenge of Rousseau's thinking. It also includes Rousseau's extensive Replies to critics of these Discourses, the Essay on the Origin of Languages, and the Letter to Voltaire on Providence, as well as several neglected but important early writings, the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay on the Method on the Composition of a Book. Broadly speaking, these earlier writings may be viewed as primarily analytic or diagnostic.