The Social Contract and Discourses

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole, P. D. Jimack, G. D. Cole

Overview

In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780460873574
Publisher:	Everyman Paperback
Publication date:	12/28/1993
Series:	Everyman Library
Edition description:	Bilingual Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jean Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 1712 – Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of liberal, conservative, and socialist theory.