The social contract. Books I and II
(2016)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781911495741 (electronic bk.) MWT11700647, 1911495747 (electronic bk.) 11700647
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality. The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right
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