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Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract (Oxford World's Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (Translator) Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953896-4 / 0199538964 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953896-6 / 9780199538966 Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government |