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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