by Jean-Jacques Rousseau · LIBRERIA BERGUA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437901527
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«El contrato social» is the philosophical essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, published by Librería Bergua in paperback (175 pages, in Spanish).
In this treatise, Rousseau analyzes how legitimate political power is founded on a social contract and on the general will of the people, depositary of sovereignty, and how that principle seeks a just and equitable society.
Work originally published in 1762 as «Du contrat social»; this 1981 edition translates the French (Enrique López Castellón) and belongs to the collection «Poesía y Prosa Popular» (no. 18).
For those interested in political philosophy, state theory, and classics of Enlightenment thought.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.
