Description

• Collector’s Edition [Easton Press, Connecticut, 1991]; xvi, 272 pages; red leather boards, gold decorations to front & rear, titling on spine, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, silk ribbon marker, spine a little rubbed with marks on the four raised bands,  a near-fine copy
• Introduction by Steven B. Smith

The power & influence of Rousseau’s writings can scarcely be overestimated. In “The Discourse on the Origins of Inequality” [Second Discourse] he in effect founded the modern disciplines of cultural anthropology & evolutionary biology; his “Social Contract” represents the beginning of modern democratic theory