JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

BACKGROUND

• June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778
• Geneva, Chambery, Paris
• French Philosopher
• Religion
• Married to Therese Levasseur

MAJOR WORKS

• Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
• Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
• Discourse on Political Economy
• Emile
• Social Contract

OTHER WORKS

• Fine Arts
• Confessions
• Julie or the New Heloise
• Rousseau: Judge of Jean-Jacques
• Reveries of the Solitary Walker

INFLUENCE

• French Revolution
• Romanticism
• Philosophers & Political Theorists

SOURCES

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