JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU E OS FUNDAMENTOS TEÓRICOS DO PODER POLÍTICO LEGÍTIMO

The article is gone back to an analysis of Jean-Jacques' book entitled Rousseau "Of the social contract" that it occupies a central place in his political thought. It is looked for to rebuild the key concepts that seat the bases, to the author's eyes, of the legitimate political power and that they allow to think that Rousseau doesn't throw, at the end, the theoretical subsidies of the several totalitarian political regimes appeared after his time.