Great Books and Classics - Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

All links verified on or after March 16, 2017

List of Works
[Confessions] [Emile] [On the Origin of Inequality] [On Political Economy] [Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar] [The Social Contract]

Confessions (c. 1762; Pub. 1782)

Text file (1,510KB) at EServer.org (translated by W. Conyngham Mallory)

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Paperback edition, translated by J.M. Cohen (Penguin, 1953).

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Emile (or, On Education) (1762) [HTR,HC]

French Scans (Multi-page) at Gallicia
Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (translated by Barbara Foxley)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition (Everymans Library, 1993, 533 pg).

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On the Origin of Inequality (1754) [GBWW,HTR,HC]

HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at The Constitution Society (translated by G.D.H. Cole)
Text file (204KB) at The Constitution Society (translated by G.D.H. Cole)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition, translated by Donald A. Cress (Hackett Pub. Co., 1992).
Paperback edition, also includes Discourse on Political Economy and On the Social Contract, translated by Julia Bondanella (W.W. Norton & Co., 1987).

Available at other booksellers:
Paperback edition at Richer Resources Publications, also includes Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts; translated by Ian Johnston.

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On Political Economy (1755) [GBWW,GI,HTR]

HTML (Single page, 98KB) at The Constitution Society (translator unknown)
Text file (90KB) at The Constitution Society (translator unknown)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition, included with On the Social Contract, translated by Judith Masters (St. Martins Press, 1978, 245 pg).
Paperback edition, also includes Discourse on Inequality and On the Social Contract, translated by Julia Bondanella (W.W. Norton & Co., 1987).

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Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar [HTR,HC]
This is a section from the second half of Emile.

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The Social Contract (1762) [GBF,GBWW,GI,HTR]

HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at The Constitution Society (translated by G.D.H. Cole)
Text file (256KB) at The Constitution Society (translated by G.D.H. Cole)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition, translated by Maurice Cranston (Penguin, 1987).
Paperback edition, includes Political Economy, translated by Judith Masters (St. Martins Press, 1978, 245 pg).
Paperback edition, also includes Discourse on Inequality and Discourse On Political Economy, translated by Julia Bondanella (W.W. Norton & Co., 1987).

Available at other booksellers:
Paperback edition at Richer Resources Publications, translated by Ian Johnston.