Description: In A Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau’s political and social arguments in the Discourse were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century.
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Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Discourse on Inequality
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 1985
Topic: Sociology / General, History & Theory
Genre: Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 5.2 Oz
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
