Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques/ Rosenblatt, Helena

ISBN 10: 0312468423 / ISBN 13: 9780312468422

Editore: Bedford/st Martins, 2010

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176 pages. 8.50x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo 0312468423

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Titolo: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of ...

Casa editrice: Bedford/st Martins

Data di pubblicazione: 2010

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Brand New

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Discover why Rousseau's criticisms of human nature, political hierarchy, and private property were so controversial in his time yet later hailed as a foundation of democracy in this edition of Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men.

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HELENA ROSENBLATT (Ph.D., Columbia) is a professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A specialist in European intellectual history, she is the author of Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (2008) and Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749-1762 (1997), and she is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Constant (2009).