The Social Contract and Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · English
This volume brings together Jean-Jacques Rousseau's principal political writings in G.
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This volume brings together Jean-Jacques Rousseau's principal political writings in G. D. H. Cole's translation for Everyman's Library (1913), with Cole's introduction. The Social Contract (1762) opens with the claim that man is born free yet everywhere in chains and asks what could make political authority legitimate; its four books develop the ideas of the general will, popular sovereignty, forms of government, and civil religion. It is followed by the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750), the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755), which contrasts the state of nature with civil society, and the Discourse on Political Economy (1755).
The Social Contract and Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · English
This volume brings together Jean-Jacques Rousseau's principal political writings in G.
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Pagera Editor's Note
This volume brings together Jean-Jacques Rousseau's principal political writings in G. D. H. Cole's translation for Everyman's Library (1913), with Cole's introduction. The Social Contract (1762) opens with the claim that man is born free yet everywhere in chains and asks what could make political authority legitimate; its four books develop the ideas of the general will, popular sovereignty, forms of government, and civil religion. It is followed by the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750), the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755), which contrasts the state of nature with civil society, and the Discourse on Political Economy (1755).
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