The Social Contract (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
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The Social Contract (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
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"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." With those words, quite possibly the most famous in all political thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau launches The Social Contract. It is a work that loomed over the French Revolution, haunted subsequent generations, and stalks the twenty-first century. Composed in the autumn of the Old Regime, The Social Contract presents a radical new form of political community composed of free and equal citizens who collectively retain ultimate authority; today it remains the most compelling counter-model to modern representative liberal democracy. Complex and deeply unnerving, The Social Contract challenges its readers to rethink their understanding of freedom and servitude, the common good, and the very legitimacy of contemporary governments.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introduction
- Foreword
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV
- ENDNOTES
- SUGGESTED READING