The Body Politic by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Body Politic

Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Quintin Hoare (Translator)

112 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black C...

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