Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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born
June 18, 1712
died
July 02, 1778
gender
male
place of birth
Geneva, Switzerland
genre
Social Sciences, Politics
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Jean Jacques Rousseau was a major Swiss philosopher, writer, and composer of the Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of liberal, conservative, and socialist theory. With his Confessions, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and other writings, he invented modern autobiography and encouraged a new focus on the building of subjectivity that bore 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 of great importance to the development of romanticism.[1] He also made important contributions to music as a theorist and a composer, and was reburied alongside other French ...more
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"What wisdom can you find greater than kindness."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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