- Civilization, Equality, Political science, Natural law.
It contains the first and the second discourse of Rousseau. The first discourse ("*Discourse on the Arts and Sciences*") is Rosseau's answer to the question posed by the Academy of Dijon *Has the restoration of the science and arts tended to purify morals?*.
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 249
- Publisher
- Librairie générale française, Gallimard Education, Harper & Row
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780061320835
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a major Genevois philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. His novel, *Emile: or, On Education*, which he considered his most important work, is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, was of great 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* were among the
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