The Social Contract: Man Was Born Free, and He Is Everywhere in Chains (Collector's Library) (Gateway Edition) (Meridian Books)

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since-seen as both a blueprint for political terror and as a fundamental statement of democracy.

  • ISBN10 0143037498
  • ISBN13 9780143037491
  • Publish Date 30 May 2006 (first published December 1918)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint Penguin USA