Maurice Cranston
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Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 1969–85. Biographer of Locke and Rousseau.
Primary Contributions (5)
The Social Contract, major work of political philosophy by the Swiss-born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78). Du Contrat social (1762; The Social Contract) is thematically continuous with two earlier treatises by Rousseau: Discours sur les sciences et les arts (1750; A Discourse on…
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