Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Enlightenment Heretic?
Wrote an autobiography: The Confessions, published posthumously
-image creation: outsider, radical, ordinary citizen, good guy
Born in Geneva in 1712
-mother died young, father was a watchmaker
-Protestant
-apprenticeship in engraving: failed and ran away
First patroness, the Baroness de Warens
-converts to Catholicism in Turin
-works as a servant, teacher, secretary only when he feels like it
1742 moves to Paris to compose music
-Therese Levasseur
-children
Wrote an autobiography: The Confessions, published posthumously
-image creation: outsider, radical, ordinary citizen, good guy
Born in Geneva in 1712
-mother died young, father was a watchmaker
-Protestant
-apprenticeship in engraving: failed and ran away
First patroness, the Baroness de Warens
-converts to Catholicism in Turin
-works as a servant, teacher, secretary only when he feels like it
1742 moves to Paris to compose music
-Therese Levasseur
-children
1750 writes first philosophical essay for the Academy of Dijon on the question:
"Has the reestablishment of the arts and sciences helped to purify morals?"
-Essay is called his First Discourse
-Second Discourse on the Origins of Inequality among Men (1755) his most famous work
Moves to Montmorency in the 1760s
-"Rousseau's Cottage"
-Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise (1761)
-Emile, or on Education (1762)
-The Social Contract (1762)
1770 returns to Paris
-makes his living copying music
-writes his Confessions
-suffers a head injury
-moves to Ermenonville in 1776 and dies there in 1778
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