The Social Contract: And, Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract: And, Discourses
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Social Contract: And, Discourses

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

330 pages • first pub 1762 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 as his own. Hence, being free in society r...

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