The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

137 pages first pub 1762 (editions)

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With the publication of The Social Contract in 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau took his place among the leading political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Like his contractarian predecessors (Thomas Hobbes and John Locke), Rousseau sought to ground ...

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