Foreword
Preface
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: The Life and Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau's Beginnings: The Road to the Second Discourse
The Origins of Political Authority Before Rousseau
Rousseau's Bombshell: The Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality
The State of Nature
The Steps to Society
The Invention of Property
Anthropology, Psychology, and Evolutionary Biology
Rousseau and Gender
Reception of the Second Discourse
“Citizen of Geneva”: The Dedication
Rousseau's Later Life and Legacy
Rousseau and the French Revolution
The Social Contract and Its Paradoxes
PART TWO: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva
Dedication
Preface
Notice about the Notes
First Part
Second Part
Rousseau's Notes
PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS
1. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Politics Drawn from Holy Scripture, 1709
2. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651
3. Samuel Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen, 1673
4. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1690
5. George-Louis Leclerc Buffon, Discourse on the Nature of Animals, 1753
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the Social Contract, 1762
7. Maximilien Robespierre, Eulogies to Rousseau, 1790s
8. Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics, 1810
Appendixes
A Jean-Jacques Rousseau Chronology (1712-1794)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index