The Social Contract

Genre(s): *non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science

Narrators: Diana Majlinger, Neeru Iyer, Rex Koontz, Justin Tovar, Christian Al-Kadi, Sienna, Availle, Patrick Wells, Anna Simon, Ezwa, Daniel Watkins, Sibella Denton

Number of Chapters: 48

Length: 4 hours and 46 minutes

Language: English

The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different form of political and social organization. (Summary by Eric Jonas)

1-01-Subject of the First Book (Diana Majlinger)

1-02-Primitive Societies (Neeru Iyer)

1-03-The Right of the Strongest (Neeru Iyer)

1-04-Slavery (Rex Koontz)

1-05-That it is always necessary to go back to a first convention (Justin Tovar)

1-06-The Social Pact (Justin Tovar)

1-07-The Sovereign (Christian Al-Kadi)

1-08-The Civil State (Christian Al-Kadi)

1-09-Real Property (Christian Al-Kadi)

2-01-That Sovereignty is inalienable (Sienna)

2-02-That Soverignty is indivisible (Sienna)

2-03-Whether the General Will can ere (Sienna)

2-04-The limits of the sovereign power (Sienna)

2-05-The right of Life and Death (Availle)

2-06-The Law (Patrick Wells)

2-07-The Legislator (Anna Simon)

2-08-The People (Ezwa)

2-09-The People (continued) (Ezwa)

2-10-The People (continued) (Ezwa)

2-11-The Different Systems of legislation (Daniel Watkins)

2-12-Division of the Laws (Daniel Watkins)

3-01-Government in general (Christian Al-Kadi)

3-02-The Principle which constitutes the different forms of Government (Christian Al-Kadi)

3-03-Classification of Governments (Anna Simon)

3-04-Democracy (Anna Simon)

3-05-Arisctocracy (Anna Simon)

3-06-Monarchy (Anna Simon)

3-07-Mixed Governments (Sienna)

3-08-That every form of government is not fit for every country (Sienna)

3-09-The Marks of a good Government (Sienna)

3-10-The Abuse of the Government and its tendency to degenerate (Sienna)

3-11-The Dissolution of the Body Politic (Sienna)

3-12-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (Sibella Denton)

3-13-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued) (Sibella Denton)

3-14-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued) (Sibella Denton)

3-15-Deputies or Representatives (Sibella Denton)

3-16-That the Institution of the Government is not a contract (Sibella Denton)

3-17-The Institution of the Government (Sibella Denton)

3-18-Means of Preventing Usurpations of the Government (Sibella Denton)

4-01-That the General Will is indestructible (Sibella Denton)

4-02-Voting (Sibella Denton)

4-03-Elections (Sibella Denton)

4-04-The Roman Comitia (Rex Koontz)

4-05-The Tribuneship (Daniel Watkins)

4-06-The Dictatorship (Daniel Watkins)

4-07-The Censorship (Daniel Watkins)

4-08-Civil Religion (Rex Koontz)

4-09-Conclusion (Daniel Watkins)

The audiobook The Social Contract falls under the genres of *non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science. It is written by Jean-jacques Rousseau.

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