The Social Contract and Discourses

The everyman paperback classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text summary. presented in an affordable edition with wide format pages for generous margins for notes. contact your sales rep or call tuttle for a complete list of available titles.from the back coverholding men in wretched subservience, feudalism </br>alongside religion </br>was a powerful force in the eighteenth century. self-serving monarchic social systems, which collectively reduced common people to servitude, were now attacked by enlightenment philosophers, of whom rousseau was a leading light. his masterpiece, the social contract, profoundly influenced the subsequent development of society and remains provocative in a modern age of continuing widespread vested interest.