The Social Contract

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Jacques Rousseau Klappentext Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) the French political philosopher and educationalist, is the author of A Discourse on Inequality, and Emile. Zusammenfassung Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since - seen as both a blue-print for political terror and as a fundamental statement of democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Assisted by: Maurice Cranston (Translation), Cranston Maurice (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.09.2004
• EAN: 9780141018881
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101888-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Books, Great Ideas; Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Penguin Books, Great Ideas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state