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Franklin Library Jean Jacques Rousseau Social Contract Political Economy 25

Franklin Library Jean Jacques Rousseau Social Contract Political Economy 25

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Franklin Library leather edition of Jean Jacques Rousseau's "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, and The Social Contract," a limited edition, Translated by G. D....

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Franklin Library leather edition of Jean Jacques Rousseau's "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, and The Social Contract," a limited edition, Translated by G. D. H. Cole, one of the 25TH ANNIVERARY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT BOOKS series, published in 1982. Bound in royal blue leather, the book has grey French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Jean Jacques Rousseau, who lived from 1712-1778, was born in Switzerland, the son of a watch maker and grandson of a Calvinist minister. At twelve, Rousseau was apprenticed to an engraver with whom he spent four unhappy years. He was beaten and his only pleasures were reading and taking long walks in the countryside. He abandoned his master before his sixteenth birthday. Without money or possessions, he started walking until he reached a village where a kindly priest took him in, fed him, and sent him to his first important woman in his life, the Baronne de Warens. She was 29 and separated from her husband. Having converted Rousseau to Catholicism, she sent him to a hospice in Turin. Years later he called this conversion "at bottom the act of a bandit." Eventually he returned to Madame de Warens and they became lovers and he managed her business affairs. At age thirty, Rousseau was unknown, a self-educated rustic with few social graces. He arrived in Paris in 1742 and took a position with the French Ambassador to Venice in 1743. Back in Paris in 1745, he began a relationship with THERESE LEVASEUR that would last the rest of his life. They became parents to five children who were placed in foundling homes. This volume includes: "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality," "A Discourse on Political Economy, and "The Social Contract." Rousseau criticized THOMAS HOBBES and JOHN LOCKE for their failure to probe the origins of man. Rousseau argued that man was "self-sufficient; he knew neither virtue or vice, but primarily the art of self-preservation. In the "Social Contract," he wrote: "Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others and still remains a greater slave than they." 290 pages---a RARE title. I offer combined shipping.

Specifics

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Binding

Leather

Character Family

Rousseau

Country/Region of Manufacture

United States

Illustrator

Frontispiece

Language

English

Modified Item

No

Personalized

No

Publisher

Franklin Library

Region

Europe

Seller Notes

“Near FINE”

Signed

No

Special Attributes

Luxury Edition

Subject

Biography & Autobiography

Topic

Political

Year Printed

1982

Reviews

  1. Vitoria Correia

    This stunning Franklin Library edition of Rousseau’s essential works is a collector’s dream. The royal blue leather binding, gold gilding, and silk end leaves make it as elegant as it is durable. The high-quality Smyth-sewn binding and acid-free paper ensure it will last for generations. A must-have for any serious philosophy lover or rare book enthusiast—both visually striking and intellectually enriching.