Question: who was the author of the book entitled the social contract
Answer: The Social Contract , or Of the Social Contract , or Principles of Political Law ( French : Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique ; 1762 ) by Jean - Jacques Rousseau , is a book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society , which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ) .