I will explain you why they became successful and why they remain important. I propose to introduce you to his 5 most important books. Rejected by many, some say he became misanthropist and close from madness at the end of his life. His independent spirit made him a lot of enemies among both the conservatives and the philosopher of the Enlightenment. The opinion about him was very mixed at the time he lived. In literature he was a game-changer and was a precursor of the major changes of the XIXth century. He was not the kind of philosopher that is read only by his peers but by a very diverse public. What a destiny for a man from a modest background who learned everything by himself, and who was not even French but from Geneva!Īs a historian, I am fascinated by how much an impact he had on the society of his time and even in the decades following his death. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) can be considered one of the founding fathers of the French republic and democracy. Rousseau painted by Quentin de la Tour in 1753.
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