514 pages
Langue : French
Publié 1772 par Garnier.
Du contrat social; ou, Principes du droit politique
précédé de discours, lettre à d'alembert sur les spectacles et suivi de considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne et la réforme projetée en Avril 1772 : lettre à M. de Beaumont, archevêque de Paris etc., etc.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Du contrat social; ou, Principes du droit politique (French language, 1772, Garnier)
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The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right (French: Du contrat social; ou, Principes du droit politique), is a 1762 French-language book by the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The book theorizes about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which Rousseau had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1755).
The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. (Source: Wikipedia)