On the Social Contract
2nd Edition
Published on 15. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-62466-785-5 (ISBN)
Description
This 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 our leading historians of the Enlightenment.
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Edition
2nd Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
none
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
216 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62466-785-5 (9781624667855)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
On the Social Contract
Book
11/1988
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
€33.63
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Persons
Donald A. Cress is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Parkside. His translations include Rousseau's The Basic Political Writings, Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, and Descartes' Discourse on Method-all published by Hackett.
David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York. His translations of Machiavelli: Selected Political Writings, More's Utopia, and Voltaire's Candide-as well as his Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England, his edition of Locke: Political Writings, and his The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers-are also available from Hackett. He is also the author of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison (Harvard University Press).
David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York. His translations of Machiavelli: Selected Political Writings, More's Utopia, and Voltaire's Candide-as well as his Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England, his edition of Locke: Political Writings, and his The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers-are also available from Hackett. He is also the author of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison (Harvard University Press).