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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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This article is about the philosopher. For the director, see Jean-Jacques Rousseau (director).
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: /ˈruːsoʊ/, US: /ruːˈsoʊ/;[1] French: [ʒɑ̃ˈʒak ʁuˈso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer. 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, economic and educational thought.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Rousseau by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1753
Born
28 June 1712
Geneva, Republic of Geneva
Died
2 July 1778 (aged 66)
Ermenonville, Kingdom of France
Era
18th-century philosophy
(early modern philosophy)
Region
Western philosophy
School
Social contract
Romanticism
Main interests
Political philosophy, music, education, literature, autobiography
Notable ideas
General will, amour de soi, amour-propre, moral simplicity of humanity, child-centered learning, civil religion, popular sovereignty, positive liberty, public opinion
Influences
Plato, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Montesquieu, Diderot, Voltaire, D'Alembert, D'Épinay
Influenced
Kant, French Revolution, American Revolution, Robespierre, Saint-Just, Counter-Enlightenment, Romanticism, Hume, Paine, Smith, Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Marx, Engels, Derrida, de Sade, Strauss, Montessori, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dewey, Kitsikis, Madame de Stael, Schopenhauer
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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.[2][3] 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 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.
He wrote a book which inspired the people to revolt against the autocratic ruler Louis 16