Jean-Jacques Rousseau Biography

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau (born in Geneva, Switzerland, June 28, 1712 - died in Ermenonville, Oise, France, July 2, 1778 at age 66 years) is a major philosophical figures, writers and composers in the century of enlightenment. Thought philosophy influenced the French Revolution, the development of modern politics and the educational rationale. The work of his novel, Emile, or On Education was considered the most important work is the key writings on the subject of civic education is complete.



Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise, sentimental novel writing is an important work that encourages the development of the era of pre-Romanticism and Romanticism in the field of fiction writing. Rousseau's autobiographical works are: 'Confessions', which initiated the modern autobiography written form, and Reveries of a Solitary Walker (along with the works of Lessing and Goethe in German and Richardson and Sterne in English), is a prime example of the movement of the late 18th century "Age of Sensibility ", which focuses on issues subjectivitas and introspection that characterize the modern era. Rousseau also wrote two plays and two operas, and important contributions to the field of music as teorist. In the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau is the most popular philosophy among the members of the Jacobin Club. He entered as a national hero in the Panthéon of Paris, in 1794, sixteen years after his death.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, died July 2, 1778) was a French philosopher and composer of the Enlightenment era in which political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of theories of liberal and socialist, and the growth of nationalism. Through the recognition of himself and his writings, he practically created the modern autobiography and encouraged new attention to the construction of subjectivity --- a basis for the works of various great thinkers of the future as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Sigmund Freud. His novel "Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise" is one that is very much a work of fiction sold in the 18th century and became an important reference works in the development of romanticism. He also made important contributions to the music, both as a developer of music theory as well as a composer.

Major Works of Rousseau

lajoooo sur les sciences et les arts, 1750
Narcissus, or The Self-Admirer: A Comedy, 1752
Le Devinda du Village: an opera, 1752,
Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les Hommes), 1754
Discourse on Political Economy, 1755
Lettre à d'Alembert sur les spectacles, 1758
Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise, 1761
The Creed of a Savoyard Priest, 1762 (in Émile)
Du contrat social, 1762
Four Letters to M. de Malesherbes, 1762
Lettres de la Montagne, 1764
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
Constitutional Project for Corsica, 1772
Considerations on the Government of Poland, 1772
Essay sur l'origine des langues, published 1781
Reveries du promeneur solitaire, (not finished), published 1782
Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques, published 1782