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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 28 June 1712 – Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought.
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Emile: Or, On Education
Emile, or On Education was considered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau to be the “best and most important of all my writings”. On its first appearance in 1762 it was publicly burned.
As its title implies, Emile is a treatise on the nature of education but...
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Confessions
Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In modern times, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions, the book from...
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Social Contract
The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society which he had...
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Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Reveries of a Solitary Walker (or Reveries of the Solitary Walker, French title: Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire) is an unfinished book by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, written between 1776 and 1778. It was the last of a number of...
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Considerations on the Government of Poland
Considerations on the Government of Poland — also simply The Government of Poland or, in the original French, Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne — is an essay by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau concerning the design of a new...
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Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse
Julie, or the New Heloise (French: Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse) is an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, published in 1761 by Rey (Amsterdam). The original edition was entitled Lettres de deux amans habitans d'une petite ville au pied des...
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- 1982
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Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
"A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences" (1750), more commonly known as "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" (French: Discours sur les sciences et les arts), is an essay by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which argued...
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Pygmalion
Pygmalion was a short play ("scène lyrique") written in 1762 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau with music by Horace Coignet. It was first performed at the Hotel de Ville, Lyon in 1770.
A novel feature of the work was the use of spoken monodrama with...
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- 1762
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