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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Western Philosophers
18th century philosophy
(Modern Philosophy)
Rousseau in 1753, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Born 28 June 1712(1712-06-28)
Geneva, Switzerland
Died 2 July 1778 (aged 66)
Ermenonville, France
School/tradition Social contract theory, Enlightenment
Main interests Political philosophy, music, education, literature, autobiography
Notable ideas General will, amour-propre, moral simplicity of humanity, child-centered learning, civil religion, popular sovereignty, positive liberty
Influenced by[show]
Niccol Machiavelli, Michel De Montaigne, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Barbeyrac, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Denis Diderot
Influenced[show]
Kant, The French Revolution, Robespierre, Louis de Saint-Just, The Counter-Enlightenment,Fichte, Hegel, Goethe, Romanticism, Paine, Comte, Bolivar, Marx, Engels, Derrida, Paul de Man, Benedetto Croce, Galvano Della Volpe, Claude Lvi-Strauss, mile Durkheim, Mikhail Bakunin, Maria Montessori, Leo Tolstoy, John Rawls
Jean Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 28 June 1712 Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought. His novel, Emile: or, On Education, which he considered his most important work, is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Hlose, was of great importance to the development of pre-Romanticism[1] and romanticism in fiction.[2] Rousseau's autobiographical writings: his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker (along with the works of Lessing and Goethe in Germany, and Richardson and Sterne in England), were among the pre-eminent examples of the late eighteenth-century movement known as the "Age of Sensibility", featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age. Rousseau also wrote a play and two operas, and made important contributions to music as a theorist. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club. He was interred as a national hero in the Panthon in Paris, in 1794, sixteen years after his death. |
