The Social Contract

Written by:
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Narrated by:
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Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
9
Narrator
3
Release Date
January 2016
Duration
4 hours 47 minutes
Summary
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different form of political and social organization. (Summary by Eric Jonas)
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James D.

There is certainly enough insight here to make it a worthwhile read, though Rousseau is not my favourite. The narration is atrocious.

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