To what extent is the social contract the most important concept in Modern Political Thought?

argue that social contract is very important in modern political thought using the theorists rouseseau and hobbes but also include critiques from other writers and use other theories such as equality proposed marx or douglas to rebuttal the points you make for social contract using source material but the essay is mostly going to be about social contract and that is to an extent the most important.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1985,

Baumgold, Deborah. ‘The Difficulty of Hobbes Interpretation.’ Political Theory Vol. 36, No. 6 (2008):

Heller, Mark A. “The Use and Abuse of Hobbes: The State of Nature in International Relations.”

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origins of Inequality. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984

Also use other source material

Douglass, F. ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ Available at: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

Bennett, Nolan. ‘To Narrative and Denounce: Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Personal Narrative,

Marx, Karl, The German Ideology. Moscow: Progress pub., 1968

Balibar, Etienncixe. The Philosophy of Marx

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