The Social Contract - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jean-Jacques RousseauSeries:Great Books in PhilosophyPublish date:1988-03-01Pages:138
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9780879754440ISBN-10:879754443UPC:9780879754440Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:PoliticalSize:8.49 x 5.55 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCX8X34887
The Social Contract
With the publication of The Social Contract in 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau took his place among the leading political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Like his contractarian predecessors (Thomas Hobbes and John Locke), Rousseau sought to ground his political theory in an understanding of human nature, which he believed to be basically good but corrupted by the conflicting interests within...
Series: Great Books in Philosophy
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9780879754440ISBN-10:879754443UPC:9780879754440Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:PoliticalSize:8.49 x 5.55 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCX8X34887
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU was born in Geneva on June 28, 1712, and raised by his father after his mother died giving him life. The reproachment Rousseau experienced at his father's hand produced feelings of guilt and inferiority that were to haunt him throughout his life. During his youth, Rousseau wandered throughout Europe from job to job. Having moved to Paris from the city of Lyon in 1742,...
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