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Emile: Or On Education Paperback – June 29, 1979
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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- Print length501 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBasic Books
- Publication dateJune 29, 1979
- Dimensions6.13 x 1.38 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-109780465019311
- ISBN-13978-0465019311
- Lexile measure1130L
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Allan Bloom, formerly a professor of political theory at the University of Toronto, has recently become a professor of The Committee on Social Thought and in The College, University of Chicago.
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- ASIN : 0465019315
- Publisher : Basic Books (June 29, 1979)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 501 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780465019311
- ISBN-13 : 978-0465019311
- Lexile measure : 1130L
- Item Weight : 1.16 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.13 x 1.38 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #80,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #96 in History of Education
- #108 in Modern Philosophy (Books)
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About the author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (/ruːˈsoʊ/; French: [ʒɑ̃ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought.
Rousseau's novel Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings — his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker — exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing. His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought.
During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club. Rousseau was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.
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My favourite chapter is number 4, where Rousseau analyses the problem of evil, the origin, how it spreads and if we can do something about it. It is not a bad start, to read.
About the translation, it is a good one, if you cant read the original and you are capable of reading well in English, go for this one.


