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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 />

PENGUIN CLASSIC<br />

jANuARy<br />

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