Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Christopher Betts (Translator)

216 pages first pub 1762 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy dark informative reflective slow-paced
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Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good...

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