Part of Penguin Great Ideas
The Social Contract
By Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslated by Maurice Cranston
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$12.00
Published on May 30, 2006 | 176 Pages
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$11.00
Published on Jun 30, 1968 | 192 Pages
Published on May 30, 2006 | 176 Pages
Published on Jun 30, 1968 | 192 Pages
Rousseau’s explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since—seen as both a blueprint for political terror and as a fundamental statement of democracy.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot’s Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile. Rousseau was also a widely loved composer and philosopher. His philosophy had great influence during the French Enlightenment and throughout all of Europe.
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