Rousseau's Social Contract: How We Became Slaves › Further Reading

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, *The Social Contract* (1762). The primary text, surprisingly accessible and worth reading in full. The Penguin Classics edition with Maurice Cranston's introduction is excellent. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, *Discourse on the Origin of Inequality* (1755). Rousseau's earlier work diagnosing how civilization corrupted natural human goodness. Essential context for understanding *The Social Contract*. - Joshua Cohen, *Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals* (2010). The best contemporary reconstruction of Rousseau's political philosophy, showing its coherence and continuing relevance. - Frederick Neuhouser, *Rousseau's Critique of Inequality* (2014). Illuminates the connection between Rousseau's social criticism and his political theory. - Philip Pettit, *Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government* (1997). A contemporary political philosophy that develops Rousseauian themes about freedom as non-domination.