The Social Contract - Hardcover

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857151623 ISBN 13: 9781857151626

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1993

Synopsis

"The Social Contract" is one of the three most influential political treatises ever written (the others being Plato's "Republic" and Marx's "Das Kapital"). "The Social Contract" continues to exert a direct influence on contemporary political thought. In it, and in the three "Discourses" printed with it in this book, Rousseau discusses the nature of liberty, human rights and the state; the origins of private property; the function of education; the economic structure of society; and the relationship between individuals and the community. This revised re-issue of G.D.H. Cole's translation includes sections from the first manuscript draft of the text and is accompanied by an introduction, chronology and bibliography prepared by Professor Alan Ryan.

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Holding men in wretched subservience, feudalism --- alongside religion --- was a powerful force in the eighteenth century. Self-serving monarchic social systems, which collectively reduced common people to servitude, were now attacked by Enlightenment philosophers, of whom Rousseau was a leading light. His masterpiece, The Social Contract, profoundly influenced the subsequent development of society and remains provocative in a modern age of continuing widespread vested interest.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1857151623
• ISBN 13: 9781857151626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1