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The Government of Poland
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Government of Poland
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Translated by Willmoore Kendall
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:157 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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Category/Genre | History of Western philosophy |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780915145959
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Classifications | Dewey:320.9438 |
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Audience | Undergraduate | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Imprint |
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Publication Date |
15 March 1985 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Should be read both as a clarification and a criticism of the political teaching of The Social Contract and as a comprehensive attempt to deal with those central problems of democratic theory that have continued to exercise our minds to this day.
Author Biography
Jean Jacques Rousseau
ReviewsThe Government of Poland is the only finished work in which Rousseau himself dons the mantle of legislator, applying the principles of the Social Contract to the real world around him. Poland teaches us much about the mysterious art of the Social Contract's 'legislator,' how he transforms each individual into part of a larger whole. Only in . . . Poland do we find what this crucial transformation entails and what it presupposes. But probably the greatest lesson to be learned from . . . Poland concerns Rousseau's understanding of the proper relationship between theory and practice. . . . Time and again we see Rousseau advising the Poles to do things which are in gross violation of the strict principles of political right he had elaborated in the Social Contract. --Richard Myers in Canadian Journal of Political Science
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