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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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  • Cover of: The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

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  • Cover of: The social contract: Discourses

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  • Cover of: Emilius and Sophia: or, A new system of education.

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  • Cover of: La nouvelle Héloïse.
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  • Cover of: Oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau.

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  • Cover of: Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire

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  • Cover of: Oeuvres completes de J.J. Rousseau

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  • Cover of: Oeuvres complettes de J.J. Rousseau, citoyen de Genève.

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  • Cover of: Correspondance complète de Rousseau: 1766 Lettres 5256-5455

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  • Cover of: Julie: ou La nouvelle Héloïse; ou Lettres de deux amants, habitants d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes; recueillies et publiées

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  • Cover of: Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes

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  • Cover of: A complete dictionary of music: consisting of a copious explanation of all words necessary to a true knowledge and understanding of music

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  • Cover of: The social contract, & Discourses

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  • Cover of: Essai sur l'origine des langues: fac-similé du manuscrit de Neuchâtel

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  • Cover of: The first and second discourses.
    First published in 1946 16 editions in 3 languages — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Political writings: containing The social contract, Considerations on the government of Poland, Constitutional project for Corsica, Part I

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February 24, 2024 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
February 23, 2024 Edited by Freso Add identifiers
December 22, 2023 Edited by kathrinpassig merge authors
October 30, 2022 Edited by dcapillae fix alternative names
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