Format | Paperback |
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The Social Contract
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ISBN-10: | 0140442014 |
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ISBN-13: | 978-0140442014 |
Edition: | 1st |
Publisher: | Penguin |
Publication date: | 16 June 1998 |
Language: | English |
Dimensions: | 12.85 x 1.09 x 19.71 cm |
Print length: | 192 pages |
Description
Penguin Classics relaunch ‘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. 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. —- ISBN: 9780140442014 | ISBN10: 0140442014 | ISBN-13: 978-0140442014
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