Download or read book Rousseau and the Modern State written by Alfred Cobban and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1934, and revised and expanded in 1964, this book is the standard work on the political thought of Rousseau. It was acclaimed by English reviewers as ‘an excellently arranged, lucidly written, unbiased account of Rousseau’s political theory’, a ‘scholarly book, distinguished for lucidity both in thought and style’, and a ‘first-rate book in defence of the essential sanity of Rousseau’s thought’.