![]() ![]() This edition includes a biographical afterword and follows the translation of Barbara Foxley. The work was controversial in its own time, but later inspired a new national system of education during the French Revolution, and to some has earned Rousseau the title of “father of modern education”. Rousseau removes the authoritative, domineering teacher figure, and instead wants mothers to encourage children’s natural tendencies, without coddling or spoiling them. Emile is an imaginary student put forth by Rousseau to illustrate his idea of “negative education”, in other words, education in harmony with a child’s natural capacity through a process of autonomous discovery. By the time his Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectacles (1758 Letter to Monsieur d’Alembert on the Theatre) appeared in print, Rousseau had already left Paris to pursue a life closer to nature on the country estate of his friend Mme d’Épinay near Montmorency. His philosophies explored the virtue of human beings as being good by nature, the corruption of civil society, individual freedom, and in the case of his 1762 treatise on education, “Emile”, allowing children to develop naturally and without the constraint of social conditions. Years of seclusion and exile of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher, novelist and essayist whose ideas in the areas of science, art, nature, morality, among many others, greatly influenced the late eighteenth century’s Romantic Naturalism movement. ![]()
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