Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings

ISBN-13: 9781554812974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 420 str.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Matthew W. Maguire; David Lay Williams

Opis

Includes the Social Contract, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and ""Preface to Narcissus"". Each text has been newly translated, and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors' introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Brief Chronology
Notes on the Translations

First Discourse: On the Sciences and the Arts
Preface to Narcissus, or the Lover of Himself (trans. by Samuel Webb)
Second Discourse: On the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men
On the Social Contract

Appendix A: Points of Departure

1. From René Descartes, Discourse on Method (1637)
2. Blaise Pascal, “Letter to Monsieur and Madame Périer” (24 September 1651)
3. From Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
4. From Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (1705–23)
5. From Samuel Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1682)

Appendix B: Rousseau and His Contemporaries

1. From Charles Bordes, Discourse on the Advantages of the Sciences and the Arts (1751)
2. Charles Bonnet (or “Philopolis”) to Louis de Boissy (25 August 1755)
3. Denis Diderot, “On Natural Right” (1755)
4. Voltaire, “Letter to Rousseau” (30 August 1755)
5. From Adam Smith, “Letter to the Authors of the Edinburgh Review” (1755–56)
6. From Madame de Staël, “Letter V: On the Political Writings of Rousseau” (1788)
7. From Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Preface to the Complete Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1788–89)

Appendix C: Rousseau and Revolution

1. From Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, “What Is the Third Estate?” (1789)
2. French National Assembly, “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” (1789)
3. From Joseph Lakanal, Report on Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1794)
4. From Joseph de Maistre, On the Sovereignty of the People: An Anti-Social Contract (1794–95)
5. From Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments (1815)

Appendix D: Rousseau’s Philosophical Legacies

1. Rousseau’s Influence on Immanuel Kant
   1. From “Notes … on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime” (1764–65)
   2. From Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (1766)
2. From J.G. Fichte, The Science of Rights (1796–97)
3. From G.W.F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1821)
4. From Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878)

Works Cited and Select Bibliography