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Table of Contents

The Social Contract Translator's acknowledgments
Introduction
Foreword
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV

About the Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) the French political philosopher and educationalist, is the author of A Discourse on Inequality, and Emile.
Maurice Cranston was Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and wrote and published widely on Rousseau, including two volumes of biography.