The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

160 pages paperback 1762

137 editions

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With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law a...

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