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The Body Politic

English

By (author): Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Translated by: Quintin Hoare

'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.'

In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 100g
  • Dimensions: 110 x 160mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Mar 2016
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241252017

About Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 Encyclopédie the novels La nouvelle Héloise (1761) and Émile (1762) and numerous political and philosophical texts. He also fathered five children - all of whom he abandoned to a foundling home - by Thérèse 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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