Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712–1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Works

• Speech on the Arts and Sciences (1750, Discours sur les sciences et les arts)
• Narcissus, or the Self-Admirer (1753, Narcisse, ou l'Amant de lui-même) 1767 translation
• Discourse on Political Economy (1755, Discours d’économie politique)
  • Economie Politique, trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)
• A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind (1755, Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes), 1761 translation
• Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men (1755, Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes), translated by G. D. H. Cole
• Disours sur l'inegalite , trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)
• 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)
  • vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4
  • Payne translation 1892
  • Émile or education, trans. by Barbara Foxley (1911)
  • Emile, trans. by Eleanor Worthington (1883)
  • Emilius, or, An essay on education, trans. by Mr Nugent (1763)
  • Minor Educational Writings, trans. by William Boyd (1910)
  • Emile, trans. by William Harold Payen (1763)
• The Creed of a Savoyard Priest (Profession de foi du vicaire savoyard) external scan
• The Social Contract (1762, Du contrat social) 1764 translation
  • Contrat social (First Version) , trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)
  • Contrat social (Final Version) , trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)
  • The Social Contract, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (1895)
  • The social contract; or, Principles of political right, trans. by Henry John Tozer (1895)
  • The social contract; or, The principles of political rights, trans. by Rose M. Harrington (1893)
• Letters Written from the Mountain (1764, Lettres de la montagne)
  • Lettres de la montagne, trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)
• A concise and genuine account of the dispute between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau, 1766 (external scan)
• The cunning-man: drama by Charles Burney, 1766 (external scan)
• A complete dictionary of music, 1779 (external scan)
• Eloisa, Or, A Series of Original Letters, 1784 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4)
• Considerations on the Government of Poland (1782)
• Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782, Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire)
• Confessions (Rousseau) (1782–1789, Les Confessions) vol 1, vol 2
• 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) external scan
  • Thirty-eight plates, with explanations, intended to illustrate Linnaeus's system of vegetables: and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany

by Thomas Martyn, 1735-1825; Publication date 1788 external scan

• A lasting peace through the federation of Europe; and, The state of war trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1917)
  • L'etat de guerre, trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)
• Lettre a M. Philopolis , trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)

Works about Rousseau

• Remarks on the Writings and Conduct of J.J. Rousseau by Henry Fuseli, 1767 (external scan)
• Anecdotes of the Last Twelve Years of the Life of J. J. Rousseau by Corancez, 1798 (external scan)
• Rousseau in "Lives of the Most Eminent French Writers" Vol 1 by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (external scan)
• Voltaire and Rousseau Against the Atheists, 1845 (external scan)
• Rousseau as Described by Himself and Others: With Remarks and Explanations by Thomas Craddock, 1877 (external scan)
• Rousseau by John Morley, 1873 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Rousseau by Henry Grey Graham, 1883 (external scan)
• The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays by James Russell Lowell, 1888 (external scan)

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

On his works

• "A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe" by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw in The New Europe, 4 (51) (4^th October, 1917)
• "Confessions, Les," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)