The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)
Part of the Reacting to the Past series, Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France plunges students into the intellectual and political currents that surged through revolutionary Paris in summer 1791.
Students are leaders of major factions within the National Assembly (and in the streets outside) as it struggles to create a constitution amid internal chaos and threats of foreign invasion. Will the king retain power? Will the priests of the Catholic Church obey the €œgeneral will€ of the National Assembly or the dictates of the pope in Rome? Do traditional institutions and values constitute restraints on freedom and individual dignity, or are they its essential bulwarks? Are slaves, women, and Jews entitled to the €œrights of man€� Is violence a legitimate means of changing society or of purging it of dangerous enemies? In wrestling with these issues, students consult Jean-Jacques Rousseau€s Social Contract and Edmund Burke€s Reflections on the Revolution in France, among other texts.Country | USA |
Brand | W. W. Norton & Company |
Manufacturer | W. W. Norton & Company |
Binding | Paperback |
ReleaseDate | 2014-05-01 |
UnitCount | 1 |
EANs | 9780393937312 |