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| | Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. | | | Augustine of Hippo's Confessions, the book from which Jean-Jacques Rousseau took the title for his own book. | | | Rousseau's work found more imitators than he predicted; the style of the Confessions influenced many later writers, among them Goethe, Tolstoy, and Trollope. |
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| | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born to Isaac Rousseau and Suzanne Bernard in Geneva on June 28, 1712. | | | Rousseau was therefore brought up mainly by his father, a clockmaker, with whom at an early age he read ancient Greek and Roman literature such as the Lives of Plutarch. | | | Rousseau acknowledges that self-preservation is one principle of motivation for human actions, but unlike Hobbes, it is not the only principle. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Rousseau |
| | Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), French philosopher, social and political theorist, musician, botanist, and one of the most eloquent writers of the Age of Enlightenment. | | | Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva on June 28, 1712, and was raised by an aunt and uncle following the death of his mother a few days after his birth. | | | Rousseau’s unconventional views antagonized French and Swiss authorities and alienated many of his friends, and in 1762 he fled first to Prussia and then to England. |
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| | Jean-Jaques Rousseau and informal education |
| | Rousseau argued that we are inherently good, but we become corrupted by the evils of society. | | | In Émile Rousseau drew on thinkers that had preceded him - for example, John Locke on teaching - but he was able to pull together strands into a coherent and comprehensive system - and by using the medium of the novel he was able to dramatize his ideas and reach a very wide audience. | | | As Ronald Grimsley has written, 'From the outset Rousseau had drawn inspiration from his own heart and found philosophical truth in the depth of his own being' (1973: 135). |
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http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rous.htm
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| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| | The "natural state", Rousseau claimed, could only be achieved via wholesale social reform which, in its ultimate manifestation, envisioned not Hobbes's "equilibrium" of competing wants, but rather a collective state with extra-personal dedication to a "General Will". | | | Only in such a state, Rousseau asserted, could the true "natural man" exist and be truly free. | | | However, Rousseau's paranoid nature and bitterness annoyed even the good-natured Hume, and soon enough, he returned to France, where he wandered in poverty until his death in 1778. |
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| | Rousseau, Jean Jacques on Encyclopedia.com |
| | But Rousseau began to quarrel with Mme d'Épinay, Diderot, and Grimm, all of whom he accused of complicity in a sordid plot against him, and left the Hermitage to become the guest of the tolerant duc de Luxembourg, whose château was also at Montmorency. | | | Rousseau's thought sometimes rings of Calvinist Geneva, even though he reacted against its vision of humanity and had his books burned by its ecclesiastic authorities. | | | The stories of citizens: Rousseau, Montesquieu, and de Stael challenge Enlightenment reason. |
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| | Malaspina Great Books - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712) |
| | For Rousseau the root cause of evil is not a necessary product of a cosmic struggle -- or the war between body and soul. | | | Contrary to his earlier work, Rousseau claimed that the state of nature is a brutish condition without law or morality, and that there are good men only as a result of society's presence. | | | We might see Rousseau's allegory as the secular version of Eden: The fall of man in a world free of snakes. |
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| | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| | One of the most enigmatic thinkers of the 18th century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's colourful life and consistent defiance of social conventions are reflected in his political writings. | | | Rousseau argued that these were merely the seductive characteristics of a modern society in which mankind had lost his natural liberty and entered a moral decline. | | | And despite the undisciplined character of his work, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel acknowledged their debt to Rousseau. |
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| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jean Jacques Rousseau ( June 28, 1712 â July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment. | | | Rousseau contended that man was good by nature, a " noble savage " when in the state of nature (the state of all the "other animals", and the condition humankind was in before the creation of civilization and society), but is corrupted by society. | | | His mother, Suzanne Bernard Rousseau, died a week later due to complications from childbirth, and his father Isaac abandoned him in 1722. |
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| | JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU |
| | Sentenced to prison, his father fled Geneva leaving Jean Jacques to be raised by his wife's sister. | | | The underlying thesis of all Rousseau's writings stresses the natural goodness of man. It is society that corrupts and makes a man evil. | | | Rousseau states that the tutor can only stand by at this period of the child's development, ensuring that the child does not acquire any bad habits. |
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| | Amazon.com: Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Restless Genius: Books: Leo Damrosch |
| | Rousseau's contemporary, the arch-conservative Edmund Burke, labeled him "the Socrates of the National Assembly" (that is, of the hated French Revolution). | | | It is no disrespect to a biographer of Rousseau to say that his task is made considerably easier by the fact that his subject had himself, in his fifties, written such a vivid and amazingly self-revealing autobiography, the famous Confessions. | | | Because Rousseau blew up the edifice of 2,500 years of classical and Christian thought about the fundamental nature of the soul and society. |
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| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an Enlightenment philosopher who lived from 1712 to 1778. | | | In the spring of 1778 Jean-Jacques went to live with a long time admirer the Marquis de Girardin. | | | Rousseau was unlike most Enlightenment thinker in that he was a philosopher. |
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| | BrothersJudd.com - Review of Jean Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract |
| | Though RousseauÕs evocative imaginary depictions of primitive societies were to swell the tide of nineteenth?century romantic "nostalgia" for the simple life, he himself insisted that there was no escape from history. | | | Contrary to Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau contended that it was civil society, not nature, that gave rise to a state of affairs that was always in danger of degenerating into war. | | | The concept of the general will thus links The Social Contract to RousseauÕs writings on nurture, education, and morals, particularly Emile, which contains his program for forming the sentiments of the young so that they will retain their natural goodness while living in civil society. |
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| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire |
| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his dramatic opening lines to his immensely powerful treatise "The Social Contract," wrote that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the pernicious influence of human society and institutions. | | | In fact, it would be hard to ever envision the urbane and suave Voltaire and the radically democratic Rousseau ever seeing eye to eye on much: Voltaire believed that through education and reason man could separate himself from the beasts while Rousseau thought that it was precisely all this which made men "unnatural" and corrupted. | | | Rousseau's influence both in art and politics was huge in his own day and continues to be strong today. |
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| | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques |
| | The Rousseau of recent feminism does not come to us directly, but is filtered through the deconstructionist readings of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, who concentrated very precisely on the leftovers, the "trash" excluded whenever politics or literature claimed to be able to determine the status of the language of a Rousseauian text. | | | As for his ethics, Immanuel Kant, who called Rousseau the Newton of the moral universe, found that he criticized conventional propriety in the name of freedom, which served both as the origin of moral law (by way of man's natural goodness) and as the principle of its transgression. | | | Rousseau has also been credited with having almost single-handedly brought about the literary revolution that was Romanticism, discovering the possibilities of the first-person imaginative subject, giving the public a taste for tales of passionate error and equally passionate repentance, exploring what would become Romanticism's dominant themes and literary devices. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Confessions (Penguin Classics): Books: Jean-Jacques Rousseau,J. M. Cohen |
| | In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from | | | Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in 18th century France, to a middle class family that was wealthy enough to give him a chance at schooling. | | | Rousseau and his philosophy, outlined in Confessions, was one of the driving forces behind the French revolution, especially among the Jacobins. |
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| | Rousseau's most famous work is Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, in which he shows how social conditions, and in particular private property, lead to inequality and the whole range of social ills. | | | Along with Voltaire, Rousseau was a Deist, and his contribution to philosophy as such is modest. | | | Emile (and the later Sophie) are unstructured, almost stream-of-consciousness works in which Rousseau uses narrative and dialogue with a fictious son (and daughter) to expound his theory of child development, pedagogy and sociology. |
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| | Jean Jacqu Rousseau - Social Contract - 1112691820 | | | I Yevish - Confessions of a Rogue Novelist - 0971438226 | | | Jan Myrdal - Confessions of a Disloyal European - 094170226x |
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| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| | Rousseau's naturalism was in great contrast to all that his great contemporary Voltaire considered the quintessence of civilization. | | | The cultured man is degenerate, Rousseau thought, and the whole history of civilization a betrayal. | | | Rousseau's life was full of contradictions: he defended the rights of little children but consigned his five illegitimate offspring to a foundling institution. |
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| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| | Rousseau was, as he himself relates, suffering from "a case of the vapors" (Rousseau would forever view himself as persecuted by both men and disease; the Scottish philosopher David Hume even commented that this hypersensitivity made him seem like a man lacking an outer layer of skin). | | | Rousseau certainly looked back upon his time at Les Charmettes through his mind’s eye, a characteristic of his Confessions in general. | | | Quotes from Rousseau’s Confessions are from the J.M. Cohen translation in the Penguin Books edition |
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| | Jean Jacques Rousseau at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base |
| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the most influential political philosopher of the eighteenth century. | | | The most enigmatic of all the philosophies of the 18th century Enlightenment, the political philosopher, educationist and essayist, Jean Jacques Rousseau, was born at Geneva on June 28th, 1712. | | | Rousseau's most celebrated theory was that of the "natural man." In his Discourse on the Inequalities of Men (1754) and Social Contract (1762) he maintained that human beings were essentially good and equal in the state of nature but were corrupted by the introduction of property, agriculture, science, and commerce. |
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| | Amazon.com: e-Books & Docs: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] |
| | In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. | | | Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in 18th century France, to a middle class family that was wealthy enough to give him a chance at schooling. | | | Rousseau and his philosophy, outlined in Confessions, was one of the driving forces behind the French revolution, especially among the Jacobins. |
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| | Jean-Jaques Rousseau and informal education |
| | Rousseau argued that we are inherently good, but we become corrupted by the evils of society. | | | In Émile Rousseau drew on thinkers that had preceded him - for example, John Locke on teaching - but he was able to pull together strands into a coherent and comprehensive system - and by using the medium of the novel he was able to dramatize his ideas and reach a very wide audience. | | | As Ronald Grimsley has written, 'From the outset Rousseau had drawn inspiration from his own heart and found philosophical truth in the depth of his own being' (1973: 135). |
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| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| | The "natural state", Rousseau claimed, could only be achieved via wholesale social reform which, in its ultimate manifestation, envisioned not Hobbes's "equilibrium" of competing wants, but rather a collective state with extra-personal dedication to a "General Will". | | | Only in such a state, Rousseau asserted, could the true "natural man" exist and be truly free. | | | However, Rousseau's paranoid nature and bitterness annoyed even the good-natured Hume, and soon enough, he returned to France, where he wandered in poverty until his death in 1778. |
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| | THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU |
| | When he said to me, "Jean Jacques, let us talk of your mother," my usual reply was, "Yes, father, but then, you know, we shall cry," and immediately the tears started from his eyes. | | | I was born at Geneva, in 1712, son of Isaac Rousseau and Susannah Bernard, citizens. | | | Its faults and its beauties are on the surface; Rousseau's own estimate is freely expressed at the beginning of the eleventh book of the Confessions and elsewhere. |
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| | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - |
| | "Rousseau Biography." (Extract from his Lovers of Wisdom. | | | Rousseau's mother died a few days after he was born (in Switzerland) and he was then raised by an aunt and uncle. | | | His most influential works are probably the philosophical novel Émile (1762) and his autobiographical Confessions (1782). |
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| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Wikiquote |
| | Wikisource has original works written by or about Jean-Jacques Rousseau. | | | 1.4 Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1770, published 1782) | | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. |
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| | Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78). |
| | Jean Jacques Rousseau, born at Geneva, was deserted by his family at age 10. | | | And while there is little doubt that Rousseau had "a pure and overwhelming desire for knowledge," the question is: Can that be said of mankind in general? | | | In time, Rousseau was to return to Madame de Warens and was to become her general factotum and lover. |
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| | The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| | I even felt humiliated that she should think I could imagine her of the same sex as those young ladies: in a word, I accepted her agency rather than none, and availed myself of it at all events. | | | I showed this scribble to Madam de Merveilleux, who, instead of discouraging me, as she ought to have done, laughed heartily at my sarcasms, as well as her son, who, I believe, did not like M. Godard; indeed, it must be confessed, he was a man not calculated to obtain affection. | | | I freely confess this preference is very ridiculous; yet my heart gives in to it spite of my understanding. |
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