Locke, Rousseau, and the Idea of Consent: An Inquiry into the Liberal-Democratic Theory of Political Obligation

By Jules Steinberg

Book Overview

Steinberg addresses such questions as: How did the notion of a social contract develop? What did social contract mean to Locke and Rousseau? Can social contract describe the working basis of representative democracy?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313200521
• ISBN13: 9780313200526
• Release Date: July 1978
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"