Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 1712-78, Swiss-French philosopher and
political theorist; b. Geneva. A member of DIDEROT's circle, he was
one of the great figures of the French enlightenment and probably
the most significant of those who shaped 19th-cent. ROMANTICISM,
influencing such figures as Kant, GOETHE, ROBESPIERRE, TOLSTOY, and
the French revolutionists.
From the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia. Copyright © 1991 by
Columbia University Press.
Works on ILTweb
Emile, or On Education
Emile, or On Education (frameless)
English translation by Barbara Foxley (1911); revised by Grace
Roosevelt, 1998.
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