{"product_id":"9781411467781","title":"Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Barnes \u0026 Noble Digital Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau’s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e (the \u003ci\u003eSecond Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e) is one of the most important works of social philosophy of the Enlightenment. The \u003ci\u003eDiscourse \u003c\/i\u003eis recognized today as a provocative and radically innovative text that anticipated anthropology, Marxist theory, the passionate rhetoric of Romanticism, and more broadly, an entire modern spirit of discontent with civilization. The debate in which Rousseau engaged himself with the \u003ci\u003eSecond Discourse \u003c\/i\u003ewas already well established in the mid-eighteenth century: inequality and its relation to natural law. His answers, however, were anything but familiar, and they retain a remarkable freshness and urgency for the contemporary reader.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126163783920,"sku":"9781411467781","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781411467781_p0.jpg?v=1769897511","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781411467781","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}