The Social Contract and Discourses - Softcover

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460873571 ISBN 13: 9780460873574

Publisher: Everyman Paperback, 1993

Synopsis

Inspired by ancient Greek city states, Rousseau searched for a way which states of his day could be equally representative

Holding men in wretched subservience, feudalism–alongside religion–was a powerful force in the eighteenth century. Self-serving monarchic social systems, which collectively reduced common people to servitude, were now attacked by Enlightenment philosophers, of whom Rouseau was a leading light.

His masterpiece, The Social Contract, profoundly influenced the subsequent development of society and remains provocative in a modern age of continuing widespread vested interest.

This is the most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, index and chronology of Rousseau's life and times.

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Holding men in wretched subservience, feudalism --- alongside religion --- was a powerful force in the eighteenth century. Self-serving monarchic social systems, which collectively reduced common people to servitude, were now attacked by Enlightenment philosophers, of whom Rousseau was a leading light. His masterpiece, The Social Contract, profoundly influenced the subsequent development of society and remains provocative in a modern age of continuing widespread vested interest.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman Paperback
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0460873571
• ISBN 13: 9780460873574
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432