Du contrat social

The Social Contract

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Language

French

Year

1762

Country

Netherlands

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

enlightenmentsentimentalismfreedomphilosophypolitical sciencethe state

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The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right, is a 1762 French-language book by the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The book theorizes about how to establish legitimate authority in a political community, that is, one compatible with individual freedom, in the face of the problems of commercial society, which Rousseau had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1755).