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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first, and the most eloquent and versatile, of that extraordinary line of radical modern thinkers who aimed their disenchantment at the very roots of the human social order and thereby forever reshaped the way we deal with one another. Of Rousseau’s many contributions to the tradition he inaugurated, the one for which he is most revered and that makes these pages glow with conviction is his passionate indignation about anything that trammels individual freedom.
This revised edition of G. D. H. Cole’s celebrated translation includes an appendix of sections from the first manuscript draft of The Social Contract and the passage in Rousseau’s novel Émile in which he summarizes its argument, along with Cole’s original preface, which has itself become a classic.
Translated by G. D. H. Cole Revised and augmented by J. H. Brumfitt and John C. Hall
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Thomas Murphy
reviewed The Social Contract and the Discourses (Everyman's Library), Vol. 162 on November 12, 2013
The Social Contract and the Discourses (Everyman's Library), Vol. 162
I don't know what to make of Rousseau. On the one hand, the entire concept of the social contract seems like a hopelessly dated relic, and a completely flawed starting position for any program of political philosophy. And, I think, Isaiah Berlin was right when he heard the tap-tap-tapping of jackboots in the future-- albeit completely unbeknownst to Rousseau-- when notions about an inalienable and indivisible general will of the people were being bandied about. But, at this time, Rousseau was writing against the notion of an oligarchical, aristocratic elite in control of society, so it has to be considered in that context.
And that last clause should also be considered when we're talking about the Discourses. The notion of the "arts and sciences" as being "civilizing" was taken as gospel then, and used as an excuse for colonial horror. And inequality was stated as a necessity. Rousseau's counter-arguments, while deeply, deeply flawed, at least were counter-arguments, and revolutionary for their time.
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