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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.
His novel,...
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Filter this CollectionEmile: 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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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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The Annotated Social Contract
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letter from M. Rousseau, of Geneva, to M. d'Alembert, of Paris, concerning the effects of theatrical entertainments on the manners of mankind
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pages immortelles de J.-J. Rousseau
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Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique
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miscellaneous works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau ..
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Muʻāhidah-yi ʻimrānī, yā, Uṣūl-i qānūn-i siyāsī
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Essai sur l'origine des langues où il est parlé de la mélodie et de l'imitation musicale
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Principes de J. J. Rousseau sur l'éducation des enfans
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Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne
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Diskurs über die Ungleichheit. Kritische Ausgabe des integralen Textes
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ensoñaciones del paseante solitario
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Kodokhan sanchʻaekcha ŭi mongsang
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The Plan for Perpetual Peace, On the Government of Poland, and Other Writings on History and Politics
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Collection complete des oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau...
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Les Reveries Du Promeneur Solitaire
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première rédaction des Confessions
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Project Concerning New Symbols for Music
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Cristallographie géométrique et radiocristallographie
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expostulatory letter from J. J. Rousseau
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Of the social contract, or, Principles of political right & Discourse on political economy
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Les Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire
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Lettres inédites de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire de Rousseau
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