The Social Contract Study Guide

Author of ClassicNote and Sources

Adrian Jermaine Smith, author of ClassicNote. Completed on August 21, 2006, copyright held by GradeSaver.

Updated and revised by Jordan Berkow January 17, 2007. Copyright held by GradeSaver.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Basic Political Writings. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987.

Hilail Gildin. Rousseau's Social Contract: the Design of the Argument. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

John Noone Jr.. Rousseau's Social Contract: A Conceptual Analysis. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

Andrew Levine. Politics of Autonomy: A Kantian Reading of Rousseau's Social Contract. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976.

Nicholas Dent. Rousseau. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Leo Damrosch. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.

Noone Jr., John. "The Social Contract and the Idea of Sovereignty in Rousseau" The Journal of Politics 32:3 (1970): 696-708