Social Contract and the Discourses

Holding men in wretched subservience, feudalism - alongside religion - was a powerful force in the eighteenth century. Self-serving monarchic social systems, which collectively reduced common people to servitude, were now attacked by Enlightenment philosophers, of whom Rousseau was a leading light. His masterpiece, The Social Contract, profoundly influenced the subsequent development of society and remains provocative in a modern age of continuing widespread vested interest.Rousseau, Jean-Jacques is the author of 'Social Contract and the Discourses ', published 1993 under ISBN 9780460873574 and ISBN 0460873571.