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  • Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Complete Fairy Tales

    by Charles Perrault ...
    Translated by Christopher Betts ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!' Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Perrault's tales were enjoyed in the salons of Louis XIV as much as they were loved in the nursery ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Selected Fables

    by Jean de La Fontaine ...
    Translated by Christopher Betts ...
    La Fontaine's verse fables turned the traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic work in French. His versions of stories such as 'The Hare and the Tortoise' and 'The Wolf and the Lamb' are witty and sophisticated, satirizing human nature in miniature dramas in which the outcome is always unpredictable. The behaviour of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Translated by Quintin Hoare ...
    'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • A Discourse on Inequality

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Translated by Maurice Cranston ...
    In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an ... Read more

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  • The Social Contract

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    For the study of the great writers and thinkers of the past, historical imagination is the first necessity. Without mentally referring to the environment in which they lived, we cannot hope to penetrate below the inessential and temporary to the absolute and permanent value of their thought. Theory, no less than action, is subject to these necessities; the form in which men cast their speculations ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Social Contract

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourses on the Origin of Inequality, he outlines his own history of the development of human society. He explains in general terms how the differences between social and economic classes arose alongside the formation of modern states. He also explores the means by which these inequalities were actually built into and perpetuated by the foundational notions of modern ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Social Contract

    by Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an Introduction by Derek Matravers.In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will.Some have seen in this the ... Read more

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  • The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    This "fresh new rendition of Rousseau's major political writings is a boon for scholars and students alike"—with a critical introduction by the translator (Richard Boyd, Georgetown University).Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called all of these things. Few philosophers have been ... Read more

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  • Democracy

    A Life

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy", yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Lectures in the History of Political Thought

    by Michael Oakeshott ...
    Series Book 1 - Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings
    Oakeshott's memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings. Based on manuscripts in the LSE archive for 1966-67, the last year of Oakeshott's tenure as Professor of Political Science, these thirty lectures deal with Greek, Roman, mediaeval, and ... Read more

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