Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (First Discourse) and Polemics

Contributor(s): Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Author), Bush, Judith R (Translator), Masters, Roger D (Translator), Kelly, Christopher (Translator)

ISBN: 9780874515800

Publisher: Dartmouth College Press

Hardcover

$65.00

Pub Date: August 1, 1992

Dewey: 194.509

LCCN: 91-50820

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Dust Cover

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.95" H x 9.58" L x 6.37" W ( 1.32 lbs) 251 pages

BISAC Categories:

Philosophy | History and Surveys | Modern

Series: Collected Writings of Rousseau

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge

Brief description: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a leading Genevan philosopher and political theorist and one of the key figures of the Enlightenment.