The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

160 pages first pub 1762 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history philosophy dark informative reflective slow-paced
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Takes up an argument which had begun with Bodin and Hobbes, and has been continued by Grotius, Spinoza, and Locke to form the foundation of political thinking in the eighteenth century. A work of consummate rhetorical skill.

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