Includes four of Rousseau's major works: The Social Contract, Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, The Creed of a Savoyard Priest. Rousseau's works 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 life-styles and educational practices. His concepts are as richly relevant today as they were in eighteenth-century France.

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