Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential figures of the 18th century. His political philosophy has been pointed to as a major contributing factor in causing the French Revolution. Social and economic inequality has been a pervasive element of human existence for the entirety of recorded history. The causes of this inequality are principal to the discussion of political, legal, and economic theory. Rousseau acknowledges...
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Only a few popular autobiographies existed before philosopher, author, and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his Confessions. Rousseau wrote treatises on education and politics as well as novels and operas, and as one of the most influential and controversial of the Enlightenment thinkers, he inspired the leaders of the French Revolution. His memoir is regarded as the first modern autobiography, in which the writer defined his life mainly in...
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The once banned and burned treatise on the nature of education from the eighteenth-century philosopher and author of The Social Contract.
Considered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself to be the "best and most important" of all his writings, Émile set off a firestorm when it was first published in 1762. It was banned in Paris and burned in Geneva, but later served as the inspiration for a new national system of education during the French Revolution.
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Born on June 28, 1712, the Genevan philosopher, novelist and essayist Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most prominent and definitive minds of the Enlightenment. Self-taught, Rousseau dabbled in many fields, keeping journals of his interests in science, mathematics, music, astronomy, botany, music, literature, and philosophy. He achieved sudden success and subsequent fame with his "A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences", a work that cemented his...
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A fascinating examination of the relationship between civilization and inequality from one of history's greatest minds The first man to erect a fence around a piece of land and declare it his own founded civil society-and doomed mankind to millennia of war and famine. The dawn of modern civilization, argues Jean-Jacques Rousseau in this essential treatise on human nature, was also the beginning of inequality. One of the great thinkers of the...
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2013
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Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and persuasive critics. His extraordinarily original observations on politics,...
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and persuasive critics. His extraordinarily original observations on politics,...
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Une édition de référence des Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Je suis né à Genève en 1712, d'Isaac Rousseau, citoyen, et de Suzanne Bernard, citoyenne. Un bien fort médiocre à partager entre quinze enfants ayant réduit presque à rien la portion de mon père, il n'avait pour subsister que son métier d'horloger, dans lequel il était à la vérité fort habile....
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"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Thus begins Rousseau's influential 1762 work, in which he argues that all government is fundamentally flawed and that modern society is based on a system of inequality. The philosopher posits that a good government can justify its need for individual compromises and that promoting social settings in which people transcend their immediate appetites and desires leads to the development of self-governing,...
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The aim of the Discourse is to examine the foundations of inequality among men, and to determine whether this inequality is authorised by natural law. Rousseau attempts to demonstrate that modern moral inequality, which is created by an agreement between men, is unnatural and unrelated to the true nature of man.
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El contrato social es un libro emblemático en la historia del pensamiento político occidental, un libro impulsor de revoluciones —la de 1789— y de revolucionarios —de Robespierre a Simón Bolívar y Fidel Castro—, una obra a contracorriente que ensalza, en el contexto de la Europa de las monarquías absolutas, la democracia directa de las repúblicas de la Antigüedad en las que el pueblo, reunido en asamblea, legislaba. El texto, malentendido...
12) The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two Discourses and the Social Contract
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This "fresh new rendition of Rousseau's major political writings is a boon for scholars and students alike"-with a critical introduction by the translator (Richard Boyd, Georgetown University).
Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of such intense debate, yet almost everyone...
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Julia o la Nueva Eloísa, obra epistolar publicada en 1760 que gozó de un enorme éxito en su época, nos sumerge en un análisis profundo de los sentimientos humanos: la pasión amorosa y el amor filial, el deber, el honor y la virtud, la amistad, la lealtad en el matrimonio... Pero, a pesar de un romanticismo incipiente, Rousseau no deja de ser el filósofo de la Ilustración, de tal manera que, además de relatar una historia de amor, podemos...
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Der Gesellschaftsvertrag;Jean-Jacques Rousseausorgte 1762 für Aufsehen als er sein Werk Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechtes veröffentlichte. Es wurde kurz nach der Veröffentlichung in einigen europäischen Staaten verboten und gilt bis heute als ein Meilenstein der Aufklärung.
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Extrait: "Il faut vous fuir, mademoiselle, je le sens bien: j'aurais dû beaucoup moins attendre; ou plutt il fallait ne vous voir jamais. Mais que faire aujourd'hui? Comment m'y prendre? Vous m'avez promis de l'amitié; voyez mes perplexités, et conseillez-moi. Vous savez que je ne suis entré dans votre maison que sur l'invitation de madame votre mère."
17) The Social Contract, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and A Discourse on Political Economy
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." This statement exemplifies the main idea behind "The Social Contract", in other words that man is essentially free if it weren't for the oppression of political organizations such as government. Rousseau goes on to lay forth the principles that he deems most important for achieving political right amongst people. Contained within this volume are also two discourses by...
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Extrait: "(...) car comment connaître la source de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, si l'on ne commence par les connaître eux-mêmes ? Et comment l'homme viendra-t-il à bout de se voir tel que l'a formé la nature, à travers tous les changements que la succession des temps et des choses a dû produire dans sa constitution originelle, et de démêler ce qu'il tient de son propre fonds d'avec ce que les circonstances et ses progrès ont ajouté ou...