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An Analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as
the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most
influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a
composer and writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist whose
Confessions ranks as one of the most striking works of
autobiography ever written. Like many creative thinkers, Rousseau
was someone whose restless mind could not help questioning accepted
orthodoxies and looking at matters from novel and innovative
angles. His 1762 treatise The Social Contract does exactly that.
Examining the nature and sources of legitimate political power, it
crafted a closely reasoned and passionately persuasive argument for
democracy at a time when the most widely accepted form of
government was absolute monarchy, legitimised by religious beliefs
about the divine right of kings and queens to rule. In France, the
book was banned by worried Catholic censors; in Rousseau's native
Geneva, it was both banned and burned. But history soon pushed
Rousseau's ideas into the mainstream of political theory, with the
French and American revolutions paving the way for democratic
government to gain ground across the Western world. Though it was
precisely what got Rousseau's book banned at the time, the novel
idea that all legitimate government rests on the will of the people
is now recognised as the core principle of democratic freedom and
represents, for many people, the highest of ideals.
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