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    The Social Contract and The Discourses

    Introduction by Alan Ryan

    Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

    Author Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Introduction by Alan Ryan
    Translated by G. D. H. Cole
    Hardcover
    $28.00 US
    Knopf | Everyman's Library
    On sale Oct 26, 1993 | 472 Pages | 9780679423027
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile. Rousseau was also a widely loved composer and philosopher. His philosophy had great influence during the French Enlightenment and throughout all of Europe. View titles by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “The Social Contract has beguiled generations of readers since its first publication in 1762 . . . In any competition for the best-known line in political literature The Social Contract’s ‘man is born free but
    is everywhere in chains’ holds a commanding lead.”
    —from the Introduction by Alan Ryan

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile. Rousseau was also a widely loved composer and philosopher. His philosophy had great influence during the French Enlightenment and throughout all of Europe. View titles by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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    “The Social Contract has beguiled generations of readers since its first publication in 1762 . . . In any competition for the best-known line in political literature The Social Contract’s ‘man is born free but
    is everywhere in chains’ holds a commanding lead.”
    —from the Introduction by Alan Ryan

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