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.

The new edition of this comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings, in up-to-date English translations.

The new edition of this comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings, in up-to-date English translations.