Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712-1778
The founder of our modernity.
Born in Genevalife of wandering.
Mme de Warensshe sends him to Turin, converts to
catholicismreturns to Switzerland and converts back.
Takes up with Mme de Warens..
Therese Levasseurservant girlfive children sent to the
orphanage (in their interest)..
1750: Academie de DijonOn the value of learning for the
betterment of man. Si le retablissement des sciences et
des arts a contribue a epurer les moeurs
1754: lorigine et les fondements de linegalite parmi les
hommes
CONVICTION THAT MAN IS ORIGINALLY GOOD AND INNOCENT
AND THAT SOCIETY HAS CORRUPTED HIM.
THIS INSIGHT TURNS ON ITS HEAD THE CHRISTIAN
TRADITION AS WELL AS THE ENTIRE PROJECT OF THE
RENAISSANCE, THE NOTION THAT ART AND CULTURE
IMPROVE THE SELF BY GIVING IT A STRUCTURE.
1755: article on Economie politique for the Encyclopedie.
Julie ou La Nouvelle Heloisethe most popular novel of the
18th century. 1756
Emile 1762
Du contrat social 1762
Reveries dun promeneur solitaire *1782, posthumous).
Dictionnaire de la musique (1767)
Confessions. . .