The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought in two volumes,together forming the most comprehensive collection of Rouseau s political writings in English.This second volume contains the major later writings,The Social Contract together with portions of the early draft of the Contract knoun as the Geneva Mamuscript Which Rousseau omitted in the final,published version of the work the Diswurse on Political Economy and the Consider

Preface
Introduction
Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A brief guide to further reading
A note on the texts
A note on the translations
A note on the editorial notes and index
Discoursae on Political Economy
Of the Social Contract
Book I
BookII
BookIII
Book IV
From the early version of the Social Contract known as the Geneva Manuscript:Bk,I,ch .2;from Bk ,II ,ch;4
The State of War
Considerations on the Government of PolandSelected Letters
Letter to D offreville
Letter to Usteri
Letter to Mirabesu
Letter to Franquieres
List of abbreviations and textual conventions
Editorial notes
Index of editors,translators,and annotators
General index

剑桥政治思想史原著系列
丛书编辑
Raymond Geuss
剑桥大学哲学**讲师
Quentin Skinner
剑桥大学近代史讲座教授
在政治理论领域，“剑桥政治思想史原著系列”作为主要的学生教科丛书，如今已牢固确立了其地位。本丛书旨在使学生能够获得从古希腊到20世纪初期西方政治思想史方面所有*为重要的原著。它囊括了所有**的经典原著，���与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度， 以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。而在此之前，这些作品中有许多从未有过现代英文版本可资利用。只要可能，所选原著都会以完整而不删节的形式出版，其中的译作