The Social Contract And The Discources

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three it is safe to say that only THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is much read in its entirety today, and it continues to exert a direct influence on contemporary political thought.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three it is safe to say that only THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is much read in its entirety today, and it continues to exert a direct influence on contemporary political thought.

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• Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Assisted by: G. D. H. Cole (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.1993
• EAN: 9781857151626
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-162-6
• No. of pages: 409
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 212 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 569 g
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Political science & theory, Political science and theory