I am grateful to the many colleagues and friends from whom I have learned about Rousseau, or who have called my attention to infelicities or occasional mistakes in the translations and in the Editorial Notes, among them Steven Angle, Joshua Cohen, Maurice Cranston, Lydia Goehr, Wolfgang Iser, Leon Kass, Sam Kerstein,Ralph Leigh, Mark Lilla, John McCarthy, Terence Marshall, Heinrich Meier, Donald J. Moon, Robert D. Richardson Jr., Charles Sherover, Karl Heinz Stierle, William Trousdale, Robert W6kler.Professor Raymond Geuss has been unstinting in his advice regarding the content and the form of the Introductions.

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最为重要的原著。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，其中的译作则是专门为本丛书的目的而安排。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。

本丛书的最终目的是，为西方政治思想的整个发展脉络提供一个清晰的轮廓。

Preface

Introduction

Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A brief guide to further reading

A note on the texts

A note on the translations

A note on the editorial notes and index

Discourse on Political Economy

Of the Social Contract

  Book I

  Book II

  Book III

  Book IV

From the early version of the Social Contract known as the

Geneva Manuscript: Bk. 1, ch. 2; from Bk. n, ch. 4

The State of War

Considerations on the Government of Poland

Selected Letters

  Letter to D'Offreville

  Letter to Usteri

  Letter to Mirabeau

  Letter to Franquieres

List of abbreviations and textual conventions

Editorial notes

Index of editors, translators, and annotators

General index