Rousseau, Jean-Jacques(1712 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Geneva), published from 1905 on, which contain not only original articles but a full review or Rousseau...

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques [addendum] The writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau continue to attract a wide range of readers throughout the world. Persistent questions concerning nationalism, political legitimacy, and the social costs of technological progress...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), who was born in Geneva on June 28 and died on July 2 in Paris, was a self-taught genius who became the leading critic of the Enlightenment vision of an essential harmony between science and society, technology...

ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES (1712–1778) was a Geneva-born author, social and educational theorist, and advocate of a nondogmatic religion of nature. Rousseau was a prolific writer; however, his mature religious thought is encapsulated in a...

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) was the leading French political thinker of the 18th century, a man often credited, though by then dead, with inspiring the French Revolution, and still perhaps the principal inspiration for the whole participatory...

(born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switz.—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) Swiss-French philosopher. At age 16 he fled Geneva to Savoy, where he became the steward and later the lover of the baronne de Warens. At age 30, having furthered his...

. 1712–78. Political philosopher and philosopher of education, he was born in Geneva and lived largely in France, often under patronage (including that of HUME in England). He emphasized the corrupting effects of society on man in his natural...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a philosopher and composer of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of both liberal and socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism....