Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract.
Title:
Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract.
Author:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
ISBN:
9780191610615
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (631 pages)
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text and Translation -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- POLITICAL ECONOMY -- I. -- II. -- III. -- THE SOCIAL CONTRACT -- Prefatory Note -- BOOK I -- i. The Subject of the First Book -- ii. The First Societies -- iii. The Right of the Strongest -- iv. Slavery -- v. That It Is Always Necessary to Go Back to an Original Convention -- vi. The Social Pact -- vii. The Sovereign -- viii. The Civil State -- ix. Property -- BOOK II -- i. That Sovereignty Cannot Be Transferred -- ii. That Sovereignty Cannot Be Divided -- iii. Whether the General Will Can Err -- iv. The Limits of Sovereign Power -- v. The Right of Life and Death -- vi. The Law -- vii. The Legislator -- viii. The People -- ix. The Same Continued -- x. The Same Continued -- xi. The Various Systems of Legislation -- xii. The Categories of Law -- BOOK III -- i. Government in General -- ii. The Constituent Principle of the Various Forms of Government -- iii. The Classification of Governments -- iv. Democracy -- v. Aristocracy -- vi. Monarchy -- vii. Mixed Forms of Government -- viii. That Not All Forms of Government Are Suitable for Every Country -- ix. The Signs of Good Government -- x. The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate -- xi. The Death of the Body Politic -- xii. How Sovereign Authority Is Maintained -- xiii. The Same Continued -- xiv. The Same Continued -- xv. Deputies or Representatives -- xvi. That the Institution of a Government Is Not a Contract -- xvii. The Institution of a Government -- xviii. A Means of Preventing Government from Usurping Power -- BOOK IV -- i. That the General Will Is Indestructible -- ii. Voting -- iii. Elections -- iv. The Roman Comitia -- v. The Tribunate -- vi. The Office of Dictator.
vii. The Office of Censor -- viii. The Civil Religion -- ix. Conclusion -- Appendix: The General Society of the Human Race -- Explanatory Notes -- Index -- Footnotes.
Abstract:
Censored in its own time, the Social Contract (1762) remains a key source of democratic belief and is one of the classics of political theory. It argues concisely but eloquently, that the basis of any legitimate society must be the agreement of its members. As humans we were `born free' and our subjection to government must be freely accepted. Rousseau is essentially a radical thinker, and in a broad sense a revolutionary. He insisted on the sovereignty of the people, and made some provocative statements that are still highly controversial. His greatest contribution to political thought is the concept of the general will, which unites individuals through their common self-interest, thus validating the society in which they live and the constraints it imposes on them. This new translation is fully annotated and indexed. The volume also contains the opening chapter of the manuscript version of the Contract, together with the long article on Political Economy, a work traditionally between the Contract and Rousseau's earlier masterpiece, the Discourse on Inequality. - ;Censored in its own time, the Social Contract (1762) remains a key source of democratic belief and is one of the classics of political theory. It argues concisely but eloquently, that the basis of any legitimate society must be the agreement of its members. As humans we were `born free' and our subjection to government must be freely accepted. Rousseau is essentially a radical thinker, and in a broad sense a revolutionary. He insisted on the sovereignty of the people, and made some provocative statements that are still highly controversial. His greatest contribution to political thought is the concept of the general will, which unites individuals through their common self-interest, thus validating the society in which they live and the constraints it imposes on them. This new
translation is fully annotated and indexed. The volume also contains the opening chapter of the manuscript version of the Contract, together with the long article on Political Economy, a work traditionally between the Contract and Rousseau's earlier masterpiece, the Discourse on Inequality. -.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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