Emile, or On Education - Softcover

Rousseau, John Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159547840X ISBN 13: 9781595478405

Publisher: NuVision Publications, LLC, 2007

Synopsis

Two hundred years before Jean Piaget did a twenty year longitudinal study of his children, Rousseau did this longitudinal study of an imaginary child. This novel is a story of how Rousseau would have raised such a child placed in his charge. As full-time governor of Emile, Rousseau begins his study, not with the intent of discovering how the boy would grow into manhood, but with the conscious intent of shaping and controlling Emile's maturation.

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About the Author:

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU was born in Geneva in 1712. His remarkable novel La nouvelle Héloise (1761), met with immediate and enormous success. In this and in Émile, which followed a year later, Rousseau invoked the inviolability of personal ideals against the power of the state and the pressures of society. The crowning achievement of his political philosophy was The Social Contract, published in 1762. That same year he wrote an attack on revealed religion, the Profession de foi du vicaire savoyard. He was driven from Switzerland and fled to England where he only succeeded in making an enemy of Hume and returned to his continental peregrinations. In 1770 Rousseau completed his Confessions. His last years were spent largely in France where he died in 1778.

About this edition

• Publisher: NuVision Publications, LLC
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 159547840X
• ISBN 13: 9781595478405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464