The Social Contract

English-language translations of
Du contrat social (The Social Contract) (1762)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The book theorizes about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which Rousseau had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1755).

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English-language translations of Du contrat social include:

A Treatise on the Social Contract, or The Principles of Politic Law (1764) Internet Archive identifier: treatiseonsociala00rous
Contrat social (First Version) , trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915) (transcription project)
Contrat social (Final Version) , trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915) (transcription project)
The Social Contract, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (1895) (transcription project)
The Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right, trans. by Henry John Tozer (1895)
The Social Contract; or, The Principles of Political Rights, trans. by Rose M. Harrington (1893)