Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings

Name: Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings
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ISBN: 9780141191751

ISBN-10: 0141191759

ISBN-13: 9780141191751

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Quintin Hoare, Christopher Bertram

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'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.Translated by Quintin HoareWith a new…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.80" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Quintin Hoare is the director of the Bosnian Institute and has translated numerous works by Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, and other French authors. He lives in the United Kingdom.



Chronology


Introduction


Further Reading


Of the Social Contract


Geneva MS (extract)


Principles of the Right of War


Letters Written from the Mountains (selections)


Constitutional Proposal for Corsica


Considerations on the Government of Poland


Notes