Arte e natureza no contrato social

Abstract

Our purpose in this essay is to resume reading the text of Rousseau, with reference to a va- luable indication which is the cap. I of Book III, which summarizes very simply the whole structure of the Contract. The memory of the text of Althusser in this preamble is only to draw the reader’s attention to a type of extremely ingenious reading of Rousseau’s work that deserves to be revisited by those who always focuses on the analysis of the Social Contract, mainly because it presents the various degree of difficulty of the readings concerned to see work in practice a theory that hardly conforms to any empirical reality, but can be considered as an attempt to outline the conditions of possibility of any given political reality, of any po- litical community constituted in history.