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ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES (CRESS, DONALD A. - TRANSLATOR; GAY, PETER - INTRODUCTION) Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; Discourse on Political Economy; on the Social Contract
Hackett Publishing Company, 1987. Trade Paperback. Good. Bright copy with faded wraps, corner edge wear. 103 pp. "Jean Jacques Rousseau 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, 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 (along with the works of Lessing and Goethe in Germany, and Richardson and Sterne in England), were among the pre-eminent examples of the late eighteenth-century movement known as the "Age of Sensibility", featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age.Rousseau also wrote a play and two operas, and 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, sixteen years after his death." - Wikipedia.
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