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The Social Contract

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Translated by Maurice Cranston

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”

These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762.

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Description

Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or ‘social contract’, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power.

From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.

 

Additional information

Weight 0.2 kg
Dimensions 7.8 × 5.1 × 0.4 cm
ISBN

9780140442014

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Translated by Maurice Cranston

Published Date

1994

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Format

Paperback

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