Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The genetic edition of these largely unpublished manuscripts sheds light on Rousseau's approach to literary and conceptual invention, showing how he gradually put in place the dual theoretical and narrative regime that structures Emile and, page after page, defines how it is written.

Letters on the Elements of Botany - Addressed to a Lady is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1787. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The texts included in this volume, written between June 1767 and 1771, all reflect an explosion of wide-ranging intellectual activity during this pivotal period, with important texts like the Considerations sur le gouvernement de Pologne or the Lettres addressed to Franquieres and Saint-Germain.

The Social Contract theorizes that the ability to coerce is not a legitimate power, and there is no rightful duty to submit to a state that enslaves its people. In this desired social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same number of rights and impose the same duties on all. Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues that it is absurd for a man to surrender his freedom for slavery; thus, the participants must have a right to choose the laws under which they live. The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. Rousseau argues that small city-states are the form of nation in which freedom can best flourish. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality is a philosophical work first published in 1755. In his Discourse, Rousseau exposes his conception of a human state of nature, broadly believed to be a hypothetical thought exercise, and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He explains the way in which, in his view, people may have established civil society, which leads him to conclude that private property is the original source and basis of all inequality. The text was written in 1754 in response to a prize competition of the Academy of Dijon answering the prompt "What is the origin of inequality among people, and is it authorized by natural law?" Rousseau did not win with his treatise but published the work the following year. The work is dedicated to the state of Geneva, Rousseau's birthplace, which he praises as a good, if not perfect, republic. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

This work, the fifteenth volume of the OEuvres completes de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, presents a critical edition of his Dictionnaire de musique, a very unique account of the emergent musical lexicography of the seventeenth century. This edition was based on the study of manuscripts and printed sources.

This work, the fifteenth volume of the OEuvres completes de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, presents a critical edition of his Dictionnaire de musique, a very unique account of the emergent musical lexicography of the seventeenth century. This edition was based on the study of manuscripts and printed sources.

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