Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Rousseau: ‘The Social Contract’ and Other Later Political Writings. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
You know the saying that you have to visualize something before you can make it real? Well if Helen’s face launched a thousand ships, this text inspired the French Revolution.
You know you’ve struck a chord when you have to flee the country after you publish it.
Rousseau is using our two favorite concepts of early modern political thought, natural right and natural law.
What does it mean to be in political community, form one, and how do we become citizens?
Related to his book Emile about ideal pedagogy.
