The Social Contract Bibliography
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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
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