The Body Politic
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Quintin Hoare Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, the author asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people.
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46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, the author asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people.
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46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.
About the Author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712. He spent much of his life travelling around Switzerland and France, working variously as a footman, seminarist and tutor. His writings included entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopedie, the novels La nouvelle Heloise (1761) and mile (1762), and numerous political and philosophical texts. He also fathered five children - all of whom he abandoned to a foundling home - by Ther se Levasseur, a servant girl. The crowning achievement of his political philosophy was The Social Contract, published in 1762. That same year he wrote an attack on religion that resulted in his exile to England. In 1770 Rousseau completed his Confessions. His last years were spent largely in France where he died in 1778.
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