Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group
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ISbN 978-0-14-119175-1 $11.00 (NCR)<br />
Philosophy/Politics 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 192 pp. Rights: N00<br />
Pub history: <strong>Penguin</strong> Classics pb 978-0-14-044201-4<br />
(translated by Maurice Cranston) On sale: 12/24/2012<br />
SuggeSTeD ORDeR<br />
A lively new translation of Rousseau’s<br />
best-known work, accompanied by<br />
additional political writings<br />
Of the Social Contract<br />
and Other Political<br />
Writings<br />
Jean-Jacques Rousseau<br />
Translated by Quintin Hoare<br />
Introduction and Notes by Christopher Bertram<br />
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” are the famous<br />
opening words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract, a<br />
work of political philosophy that has stirred vigorous debate ever<br />
since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a<br />
natural right to sovereignty, Rousseau argues instead for a pact—<br />
a “social contract”—that should exist among all the citizens of a<br />
state and that should be the source of governing power. From this<br />
premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and justice, arriving<br />
at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for<br />
totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.<br />
n New translation<br />
n Includes additional political writings not in the previous edition<br />
or competing volumes<br />
n The previous edition sold 6,000 copies per year<br />
JeAn-JACques RousseAu (1712–1778) is the author of<br />
numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for<br />
Diderot’s Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile.<br />
quintin hoARe has translated from Italian, French, German,<br />
Russian, and Bosnian and is a winner of the John Florio Prize, the Scott-<br />
Moncrieff Prize, and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize.<br />
ChRistoPheR BeRtRAM is a professor of social and political<br />
philosophy at the University of Bristol in England. He is the<br />
author of Rousseau and the Social Contract and is a<br />
past president of the Rousseau Association.<br />
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