The Body Politic by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, the author asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people.-
White Nights
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The Communist Manifesto
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Letters to a Young Poet
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
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How Much Land Does A Man Need?
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The Meek One
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Aphorisms on Love and Hate
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Why I Am so Clever
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Socrates' Defence
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The Life of a Stupid Man
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The Dhammapada
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Flush
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Antigone
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The Fall of Icarus
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The Book of Tea
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Come Close
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The Nose
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Matilda
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
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My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
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A Nervous Breakdown
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Goblin Market
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Lady Susan
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The Beautifull Cassandra
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A Modest Proposal
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On the Beach at Night Alone
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A Terrible Beauty Is Born
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Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars
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How to Use Your Enemies
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The Vampyre
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A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
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The Suffragettes
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The Night is Darkening Round Me
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Circe and the Cyclops
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Tyger, Tyger
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Gooseberries
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Oroonoko
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Femme Fatale
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Circles of Hell
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The Nightingales are Drunk
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How To Be a Medieval Woman
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire
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The Sandman
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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
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Woman Much Missed
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712. He spent much of his life travelling around Switzerland and France, working variously as a footman, seminarist and tutor. His writings included entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie, the novels La nouvelle Héloise (1761) and Émile (1762), and numerous political and philosophical texts. He also fathered five children - all of whom he abandoned to a foundling home - by Thérèse Levasseur, a servant girl. The crowning achievement of his political philosophy was The Social Contract, published in 1762. That same year he wrote an attack on religion that resulted in his exile to England. In 1770 Rousseau completed his Confessions. His last years were spent largely in France where he died in 1778.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241252017 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241252016 |
| Title | The Body Politic |
| Author | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| Series | Penguin Little Black Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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