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Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theori

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A Reader's Guide to one of the most important and influential works of political thought in the history of philosophy.

A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.