French philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic ... [56 related articles]
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(1712-1778) French social philosopher and writer. His book Du Contrat social/Social Contract (1762), emphasizing the rights of the people over those of the government, was a significant influence on the French...
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(1712-1778), a native of Geneva, Switzerland, whose influence in France and throughout Europe was enormous for many a decade, thanks to his timely ideas and colorful and lucid style of writing. Particularly influential were his Emile, a book on education, and Social Contract, a work reviving an old political doctrine concerning the origin of human....
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