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'''Jean-Jacques Rousseau''', ([[June 28]], [[1712]] – [[July 2]], [[1778]]) was a [[Swiss]] [[philosopher]] of the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] best-known for his ''[[Confessions of J. J. Rousseau|Confessions]]'' and for asserting that man is essentially [[good]] but society makes him corrupt. '''Jean-Jacques Rousseau''', ([[June 28]], [[1712]] – [[July 2]], [[1778]]) was a [[Swiss]] [[philosopher]] of the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] best-known for his ''[[Confessions of J. J. Rousseau|Confessions]]'' and for asserting that man is essentially [[good]] but society makes him corrupt.
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 +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 (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)|Confessions]]'', which initiated the modern [[autobiography]], and his ''[[Reveries of a Solitary Walker]]'' were among the pre-eminent examples of the late 18th-century movement known as the "[[Age of Sensibility]]", featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age.
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 +Rousseau also wrote a play and two operas, and made important contributions to music as a theorist. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the ''philosophes'' among members of the [[Jacobin Club]]. He was interred as a national hero in the [[Panthéon (Paris)|Panthéon]] in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Swiss philosopher of the Enlightenment best-known for his Confessions and for asserting that man is essentially good but society makes him corrupt.

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 pre-eminent examples of the late 18th-century movement known as the "Age of Sensibility", featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age.

Rousseau also wrote a play and two operas, and made important contributions to music as a theorist. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes 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.

Legacy

His political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. Rousseau also made important contributions to music both as a theorist and as a composer. With his Confessions and other writings, he practically invented modern autobiography and encouraged a new focus on the building of subjectivity that would bear fruit in the work of thinkers as diverse as Hegel and Freud. His novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse was one of the best-selling fictional works of the eighteenth century and was important to the development of romanticism. The phrase Rousseau is still famous for is "Back to nature!".

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