Political Writings

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Political Writings
Edited by Frederick Watkins
Preface to the new editioyi by Patrick Riley
Frederick Watkins' 1953 edition oi' Rousseau's Political Writings has long been noted for being fully accurate while representing much of Rousseau's eloquence and elegance. It contains what is widely regarded as the finest English translation of The Social Contract, Rousseau's greatest political treatise. In addition, this edition offers the best available translation of the late and important Government of Poland and the only published English translation of the fragment Constitutional Project for Corsica, which, says Watkins, provides the clearest possible demonstration of the practical implications of Rousseau's political thought.
This new Wisconsin printing also contains a new preface by Patrick Riley, Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Will and Political Legitimacy: A Critical Exposition of Social Contract... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Jeaii Jaajues
ROIK^AU
Political Writings
Edited by Frederick Watkins
Preface to the new editioyi by Patrick Riley
Frederick Watkins' 1953 edition oi' Rousseau's Political Writings has long been noted for being fully accurate while representing much of Rousseau's eloquence and elegance. It contains what is widely regarded as the finest English translation of The Social Contract, Rousseau's greatest political treatise. In addition, this edition offers the best available translation of the late and important Government of Poland and the only published English translation of the fragment Constitutional Project for Corsica, which, says Watkins, provides the clearest possible demonstration of the practical implications of Rousseau's political thought.
This new Wisconsin printing also contains a new preface by Patrick Riley, Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Will and Political Legitimacy: A Critical Exposition of Social Contract Theory in Habbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel, published in 1982 by the Harvard University Press.
"One could say of Watkins what he said of Rousseau: that if he is not always right, he invariably sees what is important and refuses to oversimplify iyi the interest of a too easily bought 'unity' or 'coherence.' The traits that Watkins most admired in Rousseau were his own greatest strengths as well."
—Patrick Riley, from the preface to the new edition
"This edition has an excellent introduction. All the translations are good and the selections are well chosen. One, Constitutional Project for Corsica, IS not available in English in any other published volume. It is a useful and serious piece of work."
—^Judith N. Shklar, Department of Government, Harvard University, author oi Freedom and Independence (Cambridge University Press, 1976)
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