Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Wikipedia audio article
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau


00:01:40 1 Biography
00:01:49 1.1 Youth
00:11:24 1.2 Early adulthood
00:13:48 1.3 Return to Paris
00:17:35 1.4 Return to Geneva
00:22:12 1.5 Voltaire and Frederick the Great
00:24:57 1.6 Fugitive
00:27:41 1.7 Back in Paris
00:29:27 1.8 In Britain
00:35:46 1.9 In Grenoble
00:40:14 1.10 Final years
00:43:30 2 Philosophy
00:43:39 2.1 Theory of human nature
00:53:51 2.2 Political theory
00:57:14 2.3 Education and child rearing
01:01:25 3 Religion
01:03:33 4 Legacy
01:03:42 4.1 General will
01:05:33 4.2 French Revolution
01:06:49 4.3 Effect on the American Revolution
01:08:58 4.4 Criticisms of Rousseau
01:17:45 4.5 Appreciation and influence
01:20:36 5 Composer
01:23:48 6 Works
01:23:56 6.1 Major works
01:26:04 6.2 Editions in English
01:27:57 7 See also
01:28:32 7.1 External links



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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer. Born in Geneva, his political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought.
His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. Rousseau's sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise (1761) was important to the development of preromanticism and romanticism in fiction. His Emile, or On Education (1762) is an educational treatise on the place of the individual in society. Rousseau's autobiographical writings—the posthumously published Confessions (composed in 1769), which initiated the modern autobiography, and the unfinished Reveries of a Solitary Walker (composed 1776–1778)—exemplified the late-18th-century "Age of Sensibility", and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing.
Rousseau befriended fellow philosophy writer Denis Diderot in 1742, and would later write about Diderot's romantic troubles in his autobiography, Confessions. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophers among members of the Jacobin Club. He was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.