Sharing Instinct: An Annotation of the Social Contract Through Shadow Libraries
Sean Dockray and Lawrence Liang
Abdel Kader Haïdara, a librarian who smuggled hundreds of thousands of manuscripts from jihadist-occupied Timbuktu to safety in Bamako, stands with ancient volumes from Timbuktu packed into metal trunks. Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images.
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All excerpts from The Social Contract are from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract: And, The First and Second Discourses, ed. Susan Dunn and Gita May (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002).
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