The Social Contract
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The Social Contract
Rousseau asks how people can live under laws and still be free, and answers with a contract in which each gives himself to all.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 9–12
- First published
- 1762
- This edition
- The four books of The Social Contract, in G. D. H. Cole’s translation, with Rousseau’s own notes; Cole’s introduction and the Discourses are left out.
- Pages
- 180
- Prompts
- 48, one at the close of each chapter
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every chapter of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Rousseau says he does not know how the chains came on; the question he thinks he can answer is “What can make it legitimate?” His second paragraph supposes a people held down by force and shaking it off. Which of the two questions is that paragraph working on? Bracket what he says he still has to prove.
At the close of Book I, Chapter I, The Social Contract.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
Every title uses our standard page layout and is made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages180
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, 120 gsm
- EndpapersPrinted, with different art at front and back
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond, with a ruled column in the outer margin and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts48, one at the close of each chapter
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio