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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

28 June 1712 - 2 July 1778

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a major Genevois philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.

His novel, Emile: or, On Education, which he considered his most important work, is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, was of great importance to the development of pre-Romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings: his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker were among the pre-eminent examples of the late 18th-century movement known as the "Age of Sensibility", featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age.

Rousseau also made important contributions to music as a theorist. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophers among members of the Jacobin Club. He was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.1

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Accessible book, Political science, Early works to 1800, Education, Social contract, Equality, Natural law, French Authors, Biography, Philosophy, Theater, Music, Civilization, Dictionaries, Language and languages, Protected DAISY, Correspondence, In library, Moral and ethical aspects, Natural law., Botany, Origin, Criticism and interpretation, French, Operas
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France, Poland, Egypt, Australie, Canada, Chavagnes-en-Paillers, Chavagnes-en-Paillers (France), Corsica (France), Irlande, Neuchâtel (Switzerland : Canton), Paris, Saint-Just-en-Chaussée Region (France), Savoie (France), Switzerland, Val de Travers
People
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Jean Le Rond d' Alembert (1717-1783), Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721-1794), Alembert M. (1717-1783), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836), C. Darwin, C. Rhodes, Carl von Linné (1707-1778), Charles François de Montmorency Luxembourg duc de (1702-1764), Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), Georges Claude May, Isabelle d'Ivernois Guyenet Mme. (1735-1797), J. Chamberlain, Jean Lerond d' Alembert, Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Joseph Gautier (ca. 1714-1776), Joseph de Menoux (1695-1766), L. George, Latour de Franqueville Mme. de (d. 1789), Léonard Usteri (1741-1789), Marianne Alissan de La Tour (1730-1789), Pierre Alexandre Du Peyrou (1729-1794), Pierre Firmin Lacroix (d. 1786), R. MacDonald
Time
18th century, Early works to 1800, To 1800, Ouvrages avant 1800, 1763-1796, 1815 - 1931

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May 4, 2011 Edited by Budelberger merge authors
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June 2, 2010 Edited by Lance Arthur merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import