Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Genres:Politics, History, Philosophy
Politics
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Philosophy
Books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Non-fiction
Politics
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Rousseau explores how humanity fell from a good, pre-social state into tyranny, showing how systems meant to protect us instead corrupt our nature through growing inequality.
The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Non-fiction
Politics
3.8(36,646)
Rousseau's work questions how governments are formed, arguing that people are truly free only when they agree to a 'social contract' that creates and is subject to sovereign power.