Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712 - 1778

Titles on this disk:

• author: Emile, or Education
• author: Ideal Empires and Republics. Rousseau’s Social Contract, More’s Utopia, Bacon’s New Atlantis, Campanella’s City of the Sun
• author: A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe and The State of War
• author: The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, vol. 1
• author: The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, vol. 2
• author: The Social Contract and Discourses

About this person:

Rousseau was a Swiss philosopher and novelist who was an important figure in the Enlightenment. In his novels and discourses he claimed that civilization had weakened the natural liberty of mankind and that a truly free society would be the expression of the “general will” of all members of that society. He influenced later thinkers on both ends of the political spectrum.