Emile - Softcover

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

 
9780460871488: Emile

Synopsis

Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau was considered by him to be his most important of all his works. Banned and burned when it was first published in 1762 it later became the foundation of educational reform during the French Revolution. Jean-Jacques Rousseau explores the fundamental questions of the political and philosophical relationship between the individual and society. Believing that the individual has innate human goodness in them, Rousseau sets out how they can remain part of a corrupting society.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.

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