The catalog / Grades 11 and 12
The Social Contract
Cover mockup.
The Social Contract
Rousseau asks how people can live under laws and still be free, and answers with a contract in which each gives himself to all.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 9–12
- First published
- 1762
- This edition
- The four books of The Social Contract, in G. D. H. Cole’s translation, with Rousseau’s own notes; Cole’s introduction and the Discourses are left out.
- Pages
- 180
- Prompts
- 48, one at the close of each chapter
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every chapter of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Rousseau says he does not know how the chains came on; the question he thinks he can answer is “What can make it legitimate?” His second paragraph supposes a people held down by force and shaking it off. Which of the two questions is that paragraph working on? Bracket what he says he still has to prove.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages180
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts48, one at the close of each chapter
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 9–12