{"product_id":"the-social-contract-and-the-discourses-isbn-9780679423027","title":"The Social Contract and The Discourses","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo works in one volume\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau was the first, and the most eloquent and versatile, of that extraordinary line of radical modern thinkers who aimed their disenchantment at the very roots of the human social order and thereby forever reshaped the way we deal with one another. Of Rousseau’s many contributions to the tradition he inaugurated, the one for which he is most revered and that makes these pages glow with conviction is his passionate indignation about anything that trammels individual freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revised edition of G. D. H. Cole’s celebrated translation includes an appendix of sections from the first manuscript draft of The Social Contract and the passage in Rousseau’s novel Émile in which he summarizes its argument, along with Cole’s original preface, which has itself become a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by G. D. H. Cole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevised and augmented by J. H. Brumfitt and John C. Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“\u003cb\u003eThe Social Contract\u003c\/b\u003e has beguiled generations of readers since its first publication in 1762 . . . In any competition for the best-known line in political literature \u003cb\u003eThe Social Contract’s\u003c\/b\u003e ‘man is born free but \u003cbr\u003eis everywhere in chains’ holds a commanding lead.” \u003cbr\u003e—from the Introduction by Alan RyanJean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie and the novels \u003ci\u003eLa nouvelle Héloïse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eÉmile\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301416489189,"sku":"NP9780679423027","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679423027.jpg?v=1767741570","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-social-contract-and-the-discourses-isbn-9780679423027","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}