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The Social Contract (Everyman's library) Book
'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.Read More
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- 0460870416
- 9780460870412
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 20 September 1990
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Paperback (Book)
- 416
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