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Serie Great Ideas Series

Hannah Arendt and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Eichmann y el Holocausto / Eichmann and The Holocaust by Hannah Arendt
El contrato social / The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Serie Great Ideas Series : Titles in Order

Book 14
Ideas que han cambiado el mundo.

A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido.
 
Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos.
 
Inspirada por el juicio a un burócrata que contribuyó a provocar el Holocausto, esta obra fundamental sobre la banalidad del mal asombró al mundo con su análisis de la ceguera moral de un régimen y de la insistencia de un hombre en ser absuelto de toda culpa porque «sólo cumplía órdenes».

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Ideas that have changed the world.
 
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and others. They have inspired debate, discord, war, and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked, and consoled. They have enriched lives, and they have also destroyed them.
 
Taurus publishes the works of great thinkers, pioneers, radicals, and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and compelled us to become who we are today.
 
Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who contributed to triggering the Holocaust, this fundamental work on the banality of evil astonished the world with its analysis of the moral blindness of a regime and the persistence of a man to be cleared of all guilt because he was “just following orders”.
Book 11
Ideas que han cambiado el mundo.
 
A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido.
 
Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos.
 
Este explosivo llamamiento de Rousseau a favor de la libertad humana contribuyó a encender la mecha de la Revolución Francesa y ha avivado desde entonces cualquier debate sobre cómo deberíamos gobernarnos los unos a los otros, siendo considerado tanto un modelo para el terror político como una declaración fundamental de la democracia.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The Social Contract is one of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s works that has influenced politics & government throughout the world. It espouses Rousseau’s theory on power & philosophical doctrine by delving into what he viewed as the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754).
 
The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. It argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. In The Social Contract (1762) Rousseau argues that laws are binding only when they are supported by the general will of the people.
 
When people aren’t abiding the general will and they are “forced to be free”, this wasn’t advocating totalitarianism. The general will is laws that are accepted as just and those who don’t follow the general will are breaking the law. Rousseau is advocating to force people to follow the law because it is in everyone’s best interest to do so.

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