In The Social Contract, Rousseau wrote one of the most influential studies ever made.

The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, ...

This new edition of On the Social Contract is a revised and updated version of the classic Cole translation presented in modern English.

In addition to making his mark as a prominent philosopher, educational theorist, and musician, renaissance man Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also a pioneer in the genre of autobiographical writing.

Step into the mind of one of history's most influential philosophers with "Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself.

This volume includes authoritative and lucid new translations of the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, and On the Social Contract.

The volume also contains the opening chapter of the manuscript version of the Contract, together with the long article on Political Economy, a work traditionally between the Contract and Rousseau's earlier masterpiece, the Discourse on ...