The Social Contract
Autor Jean-Jacques Rousseau Traducere de Maurice Cranstonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 2003
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir debate since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.
Translated and Introduced by Maurice Cranston
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0140442014
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Maurice Cranston was Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and wrote and published widely on Rousseau, including two volumes of biography.
Cuprins
Introduction
Foreword
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Descriere
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.