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Download Solution PDFWho wrote the book, 'The Social Contract'?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is option 1 i.e. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
'The Social Contract' was written by French writer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1762.
Key Points
- The book describes a way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society.
- The book inspired revolutions in many parts of the world, including France.
- 'The Social Contract' was considered as the 'Bible of the French Revolution.'
- Rousseau's work on social contract theory (or Contractarianism), strongly influenced the French Revolution and the development of Liberal, Conservative and Socialist theory.
- Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just who started the Reign of Terror were also inspired by Rousseau's works.
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