The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Looks at the original texts of some of the most infamous, yet widely-taught, texts in modern academia. This series features "The Communist Manifesto", "Das Kapital", "The State and Revolution", "Leviathan" and "The Social Contract".

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The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Social Contract takes up an argument which had begun with Bodin and Hobbes, and been continued by Grotius, Spinoza, and Locke to form the foundation of political thinking in the eighteenth century. The Social Contract is a work of consummate rhetorical skill; but it is also a prolonged sleight of hand in which what is most questionable is carefully hidden behind the magnificent flourishes of the prose.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 1712  – Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of liberal, conservative, and socialist theory.
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ISBN 13 9781596980822
ISBN 10 1596980826
Title The Social Contract
Author Jean Jacques Rousseau
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Regnery Publishing Inc
Year published 2009-03-26
Number of pages 226
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.