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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus. Each text has been newly translated and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors’ introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts, as well as an introduction to Rousseau’s life and historical situation. The volume also includes annotated appendices that help students to explore the origins and influences of Rousseau’s work, including excerpts from Hobbes, Pascal, Descartes, Mandeville, Diderot, Voltaire, Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Joseph de Maistre, Kant, Hegel, and Engels.

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1460406427

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The Essential Writings of Rousseau

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Essential Writings of Rousseau

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Newly translated by Peter Constantine Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and persuasive critics. His extraordinarily original observations on politics, education, and human nature were provocative in their day and remain resonant more than two hundred years after his death. Rousseau’s 1762 treatise The Social Contract laid intellectual groundwork for both the American and French Revolutions, influencing such figures as Thomas Jefferson. An eloquent writer with profound insight into human psychology, Rousseau also penned one of the most compelling autobiographies ever written—the magisterial Confessions. The entirety of the first three books of that masterpiece along with the complete Social Contract are included in this indispensable volume.

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Modern Library

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Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The new edition of this comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107151244

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Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience

Why We Can't Trust Our Brains

By: Caleb W. Lack, PhD,Jacques Rousseau, MA

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Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience

Why We Can't Trust Our Brains

By: Caleb W. Lack, PhD,Jacques Rousseau, MA

This unique text for undergraduate courses teaches students to apply critical thinking skills across all academic disciplines by examining popular pseudoscientific claims through a multidisciplinary lens. Rather than merely focusing on critical thinking grounded in philosophy and psychology, the text incorporates the perspectives of biology, physics, medicine, and other disciplines to reinforce different categories of rational explanation. The book is also distinguished by its respectful approach to individuals whose ideas are, according to the authors, deeply flawed. Accessible and engaging, it describes what critical thinking is, why it is important, and how to learn and apply skillsóusing scientific methods--that promote it. The text also examines why critical thinking can be difficult to engage in and explores the psychological and social reasons why people are drawn to and find credence in extraordinary claims. From alien abductions and psychic phenomena to strange creatures and unsupported alternative medical treatments, the text uses examples from a wide range of pseudoscience fields and brings evidence from diverse disciplines to critically examine these erroneous claims. Particularly timely is the text's examination of how, using the narrative of today's "culture wars," religion and culture impact science. The authors focus on how the human brain, rife with natural biases, does not process information in a rational fashion, and the social factors that prevent individuals from gaining an unbiased, critical perspective on information. Authored by a psychologist and a philosopher who have extensive experience teaching and writing on critical thinking and skeptical inquiry, this work will help students to strengthen their skills in reasoning and debate, become intelligent consumers of research, and make well-informed choices as citizens. Key Features: Addresses the foundations of critical thinking and how to apply it through the popular activity of examining pseudoscience Explains why humans are vulnerable to pseudoscientific claims and how critical thinking can overcome fallacies and biases Reinforces critical thinking through multidisciplinary analyses of pseudoscience Examines how religion and culture impact science Enlightens using an engaging, entertaining approach Written by experienced and innovative scholar/educators well known in the skeptic community Features teaching resources including an Instructor's Guide and Powepoint slides

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826194265

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The Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Emile, The Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, Confessions & more

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Emile, The Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, Confessions & more

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Novels Emile, or On Education New Heloise (An Excerpt) Political Writings The Social Contract Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men Discourse on the Arts and Sciences A Discourse on Political Economy Autobiography Confessions Criticism on Rousseau Rousseau and Romanticism (Irving Babbitt)

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8026892917

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The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation.

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0872201627

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The Essential Rousseau

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Essential Rousseau

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

With splendid new translations, these four major works offer a superlative introduction to a great social philosopher whose ideas helped spark a revolution that has still not ended. Can individual freedom and social stability be reconciled? What is the function of government? What are the benefits and liabilities of civilization? What is the original nature of man, and how can he most fully realize his potential? These were the questions that Jean-Jacques Rousseau investigated in works that helped set the stage for the French Revolution and have since stood as eloquent expressions of revolutionary views, not only in politics but also in such areas as personal lifestyles and educational practices. Rousseau’s concepts of the natural goodness of man, the corrupting influence of social institutions, and the right and the power of the people to overthrow their oppressors and create new and more responsive forms of government and society are as richly relevant today as they were in eighteenth-century France. Includes: The Social Contract Discourse on Inequality Discourse on the Arts and Sciences “The Creed of a Savoyard Priest” (from Emile)

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0452010314

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Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings

Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On the Social Contract, The State of War

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings

Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On the Social Contract, The State of War

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This substantially revised new edition of Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings features a brilliant new Introduction by David Wootton, a revision by Donald A. Cress of his own 1987 translation of Rousseau's most important political writings, and the addition of Cress' new translation of Rousseau's State of ?War. New footnotes, headnotes, and a chronology by David Wootton provide expert guidance to first-time readers of the texts.

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1603848614

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Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Newcomers to Rousseau’s works and those who are familiar with his writings will find something to surprise them both in this wide variety of short pieces from every period of his life. Among the important theoretical writings found here are the “Fiction or Allegorical Fragment on Revelation” and the “Moral Letters,” which are among Rousseau’s clearest statements about the nature and limits of philosophic reasoning. In the early “Idea of a Method for the Composition of a Book,” Rousseau lays out in advance his understanding of how to present his ideas to the public. He ponders the possibilities for and consequences of air travel in “The New Daedalus.” This volume also contains both his first and last autobiographical statements. Some of these writings show Rousseau’s lesser-known playful side. A comic fairy tale, “Queen Whimsical”, explores the consequences—both serious and ridiculous—for a kingdom when the male heir to the throne, endowed with the frivolous characteristics of his mother, has a sister with all the characteristics of a good monarch. When Rousseau was asked whether a fifty-year old man could write love letters to a young woman without appearing ridiculous, he responded with “Letters to Sophie,” which attempt to demonstrate that such a man could write as many as four—but not as many as six—letters before he became a laughingstock. In “The Banterer,” he challenges readers to guess whether the work they are reading was written by an author who is “wisely mad” or by one who is “madly wise.” When Rousseau was challenged to write a merry tale, “without intrigue, without love, without marriage, and without lewdness,” he produced a work considered too daring to be published in France.

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UPNE

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1584655992

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Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The new edition of this comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings, in up-to-date English translations.

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1316605442

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Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

J.J. was born for music," Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote of himself, "not to be consumed in its execution, but to speed its progress and make discoveries about it. His ideas on the art and about the art are fertile, inexhaustible." Rousseau was a practicing musician and theorist for years before publication of his first Discourse, but until now scholars have neglected these ideas. This graceful translation remedies both those failings by bringing together the Essay, which John T. Scott says "most clearly displays the juncture between Rousseau's musical theory and his major philosophical works," with a comprehensive selection of the musical writings. Many of the latter are responses to authors like Rameau, Grimm, and Raynal, and a unique feature of this edition is the inclusion of writings by these authors to help establish the historical and ideological contexts of Rousseau's writings and the intellectual exchanges of which they are a part. With an introduction that provides historical background, traces the development of Rousseau's musical theory, and shows that these writings are not an isolated part of his oeuvre but instead are animated by the same "system," this volume fashions a much-needed portal through which literary scholars, musicologists, historians, and political theorists can enter into an important but hitherto overlooked chamber of Rousseau's vast intellectual palace.

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1584658002

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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Donald Cress's highly regarded translation, based on the critical Pléiade edition of 1964, is here issued with a lively introduction by James Miller, who brings into sharp focus the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This new edition includes a select bibliography, a note on the text, a translator’s note, and Rousseau’s own Notes on the Discourse.

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1603846492

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On the Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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On the Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This new edition features a revision by Donald A. Cress of his bestselling 1987 translation of On the Social Contract together with Introduction, footnotes, and chronology by David Wootton, one of our leading historians of the Enlightenment.

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1624667872

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The Essential Writings of Rousseau

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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La Nouvelle HŽlo•se

Julie, Or the New Eloise

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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La Nouvelle HŽlo•se

Julie, Or the New Eloise

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An epistolary novel. The novel's subtitle points to the history of Héloïse d'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard, a medieval story of passion and Christian renunciation. The novel was put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

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0271044942

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Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience

Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience

The Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

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The Essential Rousseau

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Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings

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Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings

Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings

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Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings

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