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<p>Jean-Jacques Rousseau</p> <p>French author and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) published The Social Contract,Discourse of Inequality, Émile and many other great works and ideas that have profoundly influenced modern education, politics and psychology theories.</p> <p>The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.</p> <p>Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762</p> <p>JJ Rousseau broke away from the authoritarianism and rationalism of his day to champion inborn human rights and native intuition.</p> <p>Lowell Bair Translator of French literature</p> <p>His works as a political philosopher influenced and fascinated minds as different as those of Hume, Kant, Goethe, Byron, Shiller and in recent times John Dewey and Claude Levi-Strauss.</p> <p>Mathew Josephson. The Essential Rousseau. Plume Books 1974</p> <p>About the Author</p> <p>Since his early life Matthew Josephson (1899-1978) showned extreme versatility: he wrote poetry, extensive biographies (Zola, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Stendhal and Edison) essays on political

Author

Josephson, Matthew

Publisher

Jorge Pinto Books Inc.

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780977472420

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography