The Social Contract
, by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques- ISBN: 9781453806890 | 145380689X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/8/2010
Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today.This text refers to a previous edition of this title.