Subject: social contract (Keywords)

Since 2018, the gilets jaunes (or 'yellow vest') movement has shaken domestic politics in France. In this book, author Charles Devellennes assesses what lessons can be drawn from their activities, detailing the impact of the gilets jaunes on the contemporary relationship between state and citizen.

This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world.

Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. 'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.'...

Offers an introduction to political philosophy, the study of the role of government in our lives. It discusses what political philosophy is about, its most important and enduring questions, and how to do political philosophy well.

'The Politics of Human Rights' provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics.

'The Racial Contract' puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged 'contract' has shaped a system ...