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剑桥政治思想史原著系列 丛书编辑 Raymond Geuss 剑桥大学哲学高级讲师 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。它囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，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
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 Considerations on the Govemment of Poland,as well as an important fragment On War and several Letters in which he speaks more fully about central features of his thought. Rousseau,s in fluence was wide reaching,and has continued to grow since his death in 1778:the American and the Furench Revolutions were profoundly affected by his thought,as were Romanticism and Idealism. This volume,like its predecessor(The Discourses and other early political writings)contains extensive editorial material that should prove useful to both students and specialists of these seminal works:a comprehensive introduction,a chronology,a guide to further reading,a discussion of Rousseau s vocabulary,detailed editorial notes and an index.The translations are literal and consistent throughout.