Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social].
ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques.
Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social].
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." First Edition of Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social]
Amsterdam: Michael Rey, 1762.
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First edition of Rousseau’s classic work. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf. In very good condition with some light browning to the text and light wear to the binding extremities.
"Claiming to present a man in ‘all the truth of nature,’ Rousseau describes in vivid and minute detail, and with complete candor (disclosing even his meanest actions and his sexual abnormalities), the incidents of an agitated life, his reactions to them, and his spiritual development" (Reid, 136). The Social Contract is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). 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.
