The Social Contract and Discourses (A Godwit Paperback) - Couverture souple

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0889023204 ISBN 13 : 9780889023208

Editeur : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1986

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889023204
• ISBN 13: 9780889023208
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible