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  1. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe. His first major philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, was the winning response to an essay contest conducted by the Academy of Dijon in 1750. In this work, Rousseau argues that the progression of the sciences ...

  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.. Rousseau was the least academic of modern philosophers and in many ways was the most influential.

  3. Jean Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in the independent Calvinist city-state of Geneva in 1712, the son of Isaac Rousseau, a watchmaker, and Suzanne Bernard. Rousseau's mother died nine days after his birth, so Rousseau was raised and educated by his father until the age of ten. Isaac Rousseau was one of the small minority of Geneva's residents ...

  4. Life and works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switz.—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France), Swiss-French philosopher.At age 16 he fled Geneva to Savoy, where he became the steward and later the lover of the baronne de Warens. At age 30, having furthered his education and social position under her influence, he moved to Paris, where he joined Denis Diderot at the centre of the ...

  5. Rousseau explained: What his philosophy means for us today

    Born in Geneva in 1712, Rousseau wrote his first major essay while living in Paris in 1750. He went on to write several major works on politics, education, music, and even botany.

  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Swiss philosopher whose work both praised and criticised the Enlightenment movement. Although a believer in the power of reason, science, and the arts, Rousseau was convinced that a flourishing culture hid a society full of inequalities and injustices. His most noted works include the First and Second Discourse, The Social Contract, and Émile.

  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: / ˈ r uː s oʊ /, US: / r uː ˈ s oʊ / French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 - 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (), writer, and composer.His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.

  8. Introduction: Life and Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778

    Book contents. Frontmatter; 1 Introduction: Life and Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778); 2 A General Overview; 3 Rousseau, Voltaire, and the Revenge of Pascal; 4 Rousseau, Fénelon, and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns; 5 Rousseau's Political Philosophy: Stoic and Augustinian Origins; 6 Rousseau's General Will; 7 Rousseau's Images of Authority (Especially in La Nouvelle ...

  9. Explainer: the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is profoundly

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau - François Guérin (c.1760) Public domain Part of his method was to introduce and sharpen a distinction that has become integral to the thought of all subsequent eras.

  10. PDF 1 Introduction: Life and Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    For surely Rousseau is so penetrating and convincing because his was so comprehensive a structure of ideas about man and society. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in the Calvinist stronghold of Geneva on June 28, 1712, the second son of the watchmaker Isaac Rousseau and his wife Susanj both parents were. II citizens" of Geneva, and Rousseau ...

  11. Rousseau's Political Thought

    Wokler 1995 provides a straightforward introduction to Rousseau's life and whole body of work that will be particularly useful to readers approaching Rousseau for the first time. ... "An Essay on Rousseau's Politics." In Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers. Vol. 1. Edited by John T. Scott, 79 ...

  12. Jean Jacques Rousseau Biography

    Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Swiss-born French philosopher. His most influential political work was the Social Contract (1762) - which promoted the ideal of a more egalitarian republicanism. His philosophy had a direct influence on the French and American Revolution. Rousseau was an original thinker and challenged the orthodox religious and political views of […]

  13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Life, Philosophy and Legacy

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born in Switzerland in 1712, was a profoundly influential philosopher whose ideas have left a lasting impact on the fields of political philosophy, education and the arts. His thoughts on human nature, societal organization and the pursuit of a just and harmonious world continue to inspire thought and critical reflection.

  14. Biography

    During his final ten years of life, Rousseau completed a number of other works. He composed the Considerations on the Government of Poland and Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques in 1772, although both were published only posthumously. He composed his final work, The Reveries of a Solitary Walker, in 1777. Rousseau died suddenly on July 2 ...

  15. Discourse on the Arts and Sciences

    A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (1750), also known as Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (French: Discours sur les sciences et les arts) and commonly referred to as The First Discourse, is an essay by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which argued that the arts and sciences corrupt human morality.It was Rousseau's first successfully published philosophical ...

  16. Jean Jacques Rousseau

    Jean Jacques Rousseau. First published Mon Sep 27, 2010; substantive revision Fri May 26, 2017. Jean-Jacques Rousseau remains an important figure in the history of philosophy, both because of his contributions to political philosophy and moral psychology and because of his influence on later thinkers. Rousseau's own view of philosophy and ...

  17. Major Works

    Originally published in 1782. Like the Confessions, the Reveries of a Solitary Walker is an autobiographical work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Published posthumously in 1782, the Reveries is a collection of ten books, or "walks," that describe Rousseau's wanderings around Paris during the solitary end of his life.…. More.

  18. PDF Jean-jacques rousseau (1712-1778 )

    Jean-jacques rousseau (1712-1778 ) Life born in Geneva, Switzerland his mother died two days later and father fled when Rousseau was ten raised by an uncle, he fled Geneva at age 16, living as a vagabond until settling in Paris in 1742 there he became friends with Diderot his 1749 essay, the Discourse on the Arts and Science,

  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778 Swiss-born French essayist, autobiographer, novelist, dramatist, and poet. The following entry provides critical discussion of Rousseau's writing on political theory.

  20. The Full Revelation of the Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Birth of

    Psychology The Full Revelation of the Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Birth of Deep Autobiography Peter Abbs recounts how Rousseau undertook a psychological self-examination a century before psychoanalysis.. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great 18th century philosopher, was preoccupied throughout his life with his own unstable identity, with his image, with his inner truth and with his ever ...

  21. PDF I. The Place of the Confessions and Rêveries in Rousseau's œuvre

    A Brief Chron ology of Rousseau's Life 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, son of Isaac Rousseau and Suzanne ... The Académie de Dijon awards its prize for best essay to Rousseau for his first Discours (on the arts and sciences), which is ... The work outlines Rousseau's notion of the general will and the democratic principle of the people's ...

  22. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-78)

    Rousseau always maintained that he regretted taking up a career of letters. His first love was music and he composed a number of operas in the 1740s with some success. The turning point in his life occurred in July 1749. He was on his way to see his then friend Diderot who was imprisoned at Vincennes. He read in the newspaper a prize essay ...

  23. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Biography

    Major works Rousseau's novel La Nouvelle Héloïse (1761) attempted to portray in fiction the sufferings and tragedy that foolish education and restrictive social customs had among sensitive creatures. Rousseau's two other major writings— L'émile ou de l'éducation (1762) and Du contrat social (1762)—undertook the more difficult task of constructing an education and a social order that ...

  24. Meet My A.I. Friends

    The Age of A.I. A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family's grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems. Despite Mark ...

  25. Episodes from poet's life are recounted in essays

    Students at the University of Alabama in the late '60s and early '70s will remember James Seay. Tall, slender, with long brown hair, and a black eye patch over his right eye, Seay taught ...