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ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES; CRANSTON, MAURICE (TRANSLATOR & INTRODUCTION) Social Contract (the Hafner Library of Classics 1)
Penguin Classics, 1968. Trade Paperback. Good. Cover edge wear & corner creasing, spine creased, pages toned, ink throughout text, shelf wear, cover creasing. " 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.' These are the famous words of a treatise which, from the French Revolutionary Terror to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, has been interpreted as a blueprint for totalitarianism. But in the Social Contract Rousseau (1712-78) was at apains to stress the connection between liberty and law, freedom and justice. Arguing that the ruler is the people's agent, not its master, he claimed that laws derived from the people's General Will. Yet in preaching subservience to the impersonal state he cam close to defining freedom as the recognition of necessity.".
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