Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

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A Franco-Swiss philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Works

• Speech on the Arts and Sciences (1750, Discours sur les sciences et les arts)
• Discourse on Political Economy (1755, Discours d’économie politique)
• Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men (1755, Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes)
• Letters to M. D'Alembert on the Theater (1758, Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectacles)
• The New Heloise (1761, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse)
• Emile, or On Education (1762, Émile, ou De l’éducation)
• The Creed of a Savoyard Priest (Profession de foi du vicaire savoyard)
• The Social Contract (1762, Du contrat social)
• Letters Written from the Mountain (1764, Lettres de la montagne)
• Considerations on the Government of Poland (1782)
• Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782, Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire)
• Confessions (Rousseau) (1782–1789, Les Confessions)
• Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a lady, by the celebrated J. J. Rousseau (1771-1773, Lettres (élémentaires) sur la botanique à Madame Delessert)

Works about Rousseau

• “Rousseau, Jean Jacques” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Rousseau, Jean Jacques,” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911

On his works

• “Confessions, Les,” in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)