Social Contract and Discourses - Couverture rigide

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

 
9780460016605: Social Contract and Discourses
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0460016601 ISBN 13 : 9780460016605
Editeur : Dutton Books, 1978

Synopsis

Book by Rousseau JeanJacques

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is 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 (1754). 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. In The Social Contract (1762) Rousseau argues that laws are binding only when they are supported by the general will of the people. When people aren't abiding the general will and they are "forced to be free", this wasn't advocating totalitarianism. The general will is laws that are accepted as just and those who don't follow the general will are breaking the law. Rousseau is advocating to force people to follow the law because it is in everyone's best interest to do so.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. This text refers to a previous edition of this title.

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Éditeur
Dutton Books
Date d'édition
1978
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0460016601
ISBN 13 
9780460016605
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
330
Éditeur
Brumfitt J. H., Hall J. C.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  0140442014 ISBN 13 :  9780140442014
Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2003
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