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Book SynopsisJean-Jacques Rousseau, born in 1762 in Geneva, became one of the most important men in 18th-century France. He was one of the foremost philosophers of the Enlightenment and wrote a number of books to promote his ideas including the Discourse on Political Economy, The Social Contract and Emile.
G. D. H Cole (1889-1959) was a political theorist and university teacher who held important academic posts at Oxford University. He became prominent immediately before the First World War as a leading exponent of guild socialism and published his first major work,
The World of Labour, in 1913. During the 1930s he was acknowledged as the most prolific writer on the intellectual history of British socialism in articles in the New Statesman and in his works, which included
A History of Socialist Thought (1953-8). He was married to Margaret Postgate (sister of Raymond Postgate) with whom he collaborated in detective fiction.
