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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Translations refer to the editions to which references may
be made. There are numerous versions of many standard
works cited here.

Bernard Bosanquet, The Philosophical Theory of the State
(London, 1899; reprint 1965). Benjamin Constant, Principes
de politique
(1815), in Oeuvres (Paris, 1957). Denis Diderot,
ed., Encyclopédie (1751-80), in Oeuvres complètes (Paris,
1876), Vols. XIV-XV. J. G. Fichte, Grundlage des Naturrechts
(1796-97), in Sämtliche Werke (Berlin, 1845), Vol. III; idem,
The Science of Rights, trans. A. E. Kroeger (Philadelphia,
1869; London, 1889); idem, Der geschlossene Handelsstaat
(1800), in Sämtliche Werke, Vol. III; idem, Addresses to the
German Nation,
trans. R. F. Jones and G. H. Turnbull, ed.
G. A. Kelly (New York, 1968). T. H. Green, Lectures on the
Principles of Political Obligation
(London, 1882; 1941). G.
W. F. Hegel, The Philosophy of Right (1821), trans. T. M.
Knox (Oxford, 1942). Immanuel Kant, Über den Gemeins-
pruch: Das mag in der Theorie richtig sein, taugt aber nichts
für die Praxis
(1793), in Werke (Berlin, 1914), Vol. VI; idem,
Zum ewigen Frieden (1795), ibid.; The Philosophy of Kant,
trans. and ed. C. J. Friedrich (New York, 1949); idem, Die
Metaphysik der Sitten
(1797), in Werke, Vol. III; idem, The
Philosophy of Law,
trans. W. Hastie (Edinburgh, 1887).
Nicolas de Malebranche, De la recherche de la vérité
(1674-75; Paris, 1962). Charles de Secondat de Montesquieu,
L'Esprit des lois (1748), in Oeuvres complètes (Paris, 1950),
Vol. I; trans. Thomas Nugent as The Spirit of the Laws (New
York, 1949). P. J. Proudhon, Idée générale de la révolution
au XIXe siècle
(1851), in Oeuvres complètes (Paris, 1923),
Vol. III; trans. J. B. Robinson as General Idea of Revolution
in the Nineteenth Century
(London, 1923); idem, De la
justice dans la révolution et dans l'église
(1858), in Oeuvres,
op. cit., Vol. IX. Samuel von Pufendorf, On the Duty of
Man and the Citizen According to the Natural Law
(1673),
trans. F. G. Moore (New York, 1927). J. J. Rousseau, Émile
(1762), trans. B. Foxley (London, 1948); idem, Political Writ-
ings,
ed. C. E. Vaughan, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1915; reprint
Oxford and New York, 1962); idem, The Social Contract and
Discourses,
trans. G. D. H. Cole (London and New York,
1950). Emmanuel Sieyès, Qu'est-ce que le Tiers État? (1789;
Paris, 1888), trans. H. Blondel as What Is the Third Estate?
(London, 1963).

Secondary Sources. John Bowle, Politics and Opinion in
the Nineteenth Century
(London and New York, 1954). Ernst
Cassirer, Rousseau, Kant, and Goethe (Princeton, 1945; also
reprint). Alfred Cobban, Rousseau and the Modern State,
2nd ed. (London, 1964), contains a history of Rousseau
interpretations. Robert Derathé, Jean-Jacques Rousseau et
la science politique de son temps
(Paris, 1950). Ginette
Dreyfus, la volonté selon Malebranche (Paris, 1958). C. W.
Hendel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Moralist, 2 vols. (London,
1934), Vol. I, Ch. V, a history of the idea of general will.
Roger D. Masters, The Political Philosophy of Rousseau
(Princeton, 1968), has an excellent bibliography.

JUDITH N. SHKLAR

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