Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
	Rousseau in 1753, bi Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Born	28 Juin 1712; Geneva, Republic o Geneva
Dee'd	2 Julie 1778 (aged 66); Ermenonville, Kinrick o Fraunce
Era	18t century philosophy; (Modren philosophy)
Region	Wastren philosophy
Schuil	Social contract theory; Romanticism
Main interests	Poleetical philosophy, muisic,; eddication, leeteratur,; autobiografie
Notable ideas	General will, amour-propre,; moral simplicity o humanity,; child-centered learnin,; ceevil releegion, popular sovereignty,; positive leeberty
	Influences Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli,; Michel De Montaigne, Hugo Grotius,; Samuel von Pufendorf, Thomas Hobbes,; John Locke, Jean Barbeyrac,; Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Denis Diderot;
	Influenced Kant, The French Revolution,; Robespierre, Louis de Saint-Just,; The Counter-Enlightenment,; Fichte, Hegel, Goethe,; Alexis de Tocqueville, Friedrich Nietzsche,; Romanticism, Paine,; Comte, Bolívar, Marx,; Engels, Derrida, Paul de Man,; Benedetto Croce, Galvano Della Volpe,; Claude Lévi-Strauss, Leo Strauss,; Mary Shelley, Émile Durkheim,; Mikhail Bakunin, Maria Montessori,; Leo Tolstoy, John Rawls,; Juan José Castelli, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; ;

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French: [ʒɑ̃ʒak ʁuso]; 28 Juin 1712 – 2 Julie 1778) wis a Genevan philosophy, writer, an composer o 18t-century Romanticism o French expression. His poleetical philosophy haed ae influence on the French Revolution as weel as the oweraw development o modren poleetical, sociological an educational thocht.

His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise on the education o the hale body for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse wis o importance tae the development o pre-romanticism^[1] an romanticism in fiction.^[2] Rousseau's autobiographical writins—his Confessions, that initiatit the modren biography, an his Reveries of a Solitary Walker—exemplifee'd the late 18t-century muivement kent as the Age o Sensibility, featurin an increasin focus on subjectivity an introspection that haes characterizit the modren age. His Discourse on the Origin of Inequality an his On the Social Contract are cornerstanes in modren poleetical an social thocht.

Rousseau wis a successfu composer o muisic. He wrote seiven operas as weel as muisic in ither forms, an he made contreibutions tae muisic as a theorist.

Notes

↑ "Preromanticism Criticism". Enotes.com. Archived frae the original on 6 Apryle 2010. Retrieved 23 Februar 2009.
↑ See forby Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre, chapter 6: "Readers Respond to Rousseau: The Fabrication of Romantic Sensitivity" fur some exemples o contemporar takins tae this novel.

[1] "Preromanticism Criticism". Enotes.com. Archived frae the original on 6 Apryle 2010. Retrieved 23 Februar 2009.

[2] See forby Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre, chapter 6: "Readers Respond to Rousseau: The Fabrication of Romantic Sensitivity" fur some exemples o contemporar takins tae this novel.

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