The Social Contract & Discourses - Softcover

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1723396516 ISBN 13: 9781723396519

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean Jacques Rousseau - Translated with Introduction by G. D. H. Cole. The Social Contract finally appeared, along with Emile, in 1762. This year, therefore, represents in every respect the culmination of Rousseau's career. Henceforth, he was to write only controversial and confessional works; his theories were now developed, and, simultaneously, he gave to the world his views on the fundamental problems of politics and education. It is now time to ask what Rousseau's system, in its maturity, finally amounted to. The Social Contract contains practically the whole of his constructive political theory; it requires to be read, for full understanding, in connection with his other works, especially Emile and the Letters on the Mount (1764), but in the main it is self-contained and complete. The title sufficiently defines its scope. It is called The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right, and the second title explains the first. Rousseau's object is not to deal, in a general way, like Montesquieu, with the actual institutions of existing States, but to lay down the essential principles which must form the basis of every legitimate society.

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• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1723396516
• ISBN 13: 9781723396519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178
• Editor: Rhys Ernest