Emile; or On Education
or on Education
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- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2007
Summary
Educators as well as students of philosophy will find much to admire in Rousseau’s still fresh and innovative ideas.
In his pioneering treatise on education, the great French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) presents concepts that had a significant influence on the development of pedagogy in the eighteenth century, and yet many of his ideas still sound radical today. Written in reaction to the stultifying system of rote learning and memorization prevalent throughout Europ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140445633 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140445633 |
| Author: | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 131mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712. His remarkable novel La nouvelle Héloïse (1761) met with immediate and enormous success. In this and in Émile, which followed a year later, Rousseau invoked the inviolability of personal ideals against the power of the state and the pressures of society. The crowning achievement of his political philosophy was The Social Contract, published in 1762. That same year he wrote an attack on revealed religion, the Profession de foi du vicaire savoyard. He was driven from Switzerland and fled to England, where he only succeeded in making an enemy of Hume, and returned to his continental peregrinations. In 1770 Rousseau completed his Confessions. His last years were spent largely in France, where he died in 1778.
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