Originally published by Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1931
ISBN 0-9774724-2-6
French author and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) published The Social Contract,Discourse of Inequality, Émile and many other great works and ideas that have profoundly influenced modern education, politics and psychology theories.
The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
JJ Rousseau broke away from the authoritarianism and rationalism of his day to champion inborn human rights and native intuition. Lowell Bair Translator of French literature
His works as a political philosopher influenced and fascinated minds as different as those of Hume, Kant, Goethe, Byron, Shiller and in recent times John Dewey and Claude Levi-Strauss.
Mathew Josephson. The Essential Rousseau. Plume Books 1974
Rousseau words “of such violent corrective force, producing an immense glow of enthusiasm, stimulating the love of liberty, most have done much to precipitate France’s all important assistance of the American colonists in their revolutionary struggle; and ultimately they lead France to arise from the deadly decay which had taken hold of her institutions”