The Social Contract: Or Principles of Political Right - Brossura

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

 
9781853267819: The Social Contract: Or Principles of Political Right
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ISBN 10: 1853267813 ISBN 13: 9781853267819
Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997

Sinossi

With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. 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. Some have seen in this the promise of a free and equal relationship between society and the individual, while others have seen it as nothing less than a blueprint for totalitarianism. The Social Contract is not only one of the great defences of civil society, it is also unflinching in its study of the darker side of political systems.

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L'autore

Christopher is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick.

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Editore
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
1997
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1853267813
ISBN 13 
9781853267819
Rilegatura
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Numero di pagine
160
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