Front Page Authors (by Period) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712 - 1778

About the Author

Rousseau was a Swiss philosopher and novelist who was an important figure in the Enlightenment. In his novels and discourses he claimed that civilization had weakened the natural liberty of mankind and that a truly free society would be the expression of the “general will” of all members of that society. He influenced later thinkers on both ends of the political spectrum.

In The Library:

• author: Ideal Empires and Republics. Rousseau’s Social Contract, More’s Utopia, Bacon’s New Atlantis, Campanella’s City of the Sun (1901)
• author: A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe and The State of War (1917)
• author: The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, 2 vols. (1915)
• author: The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, vol. 1 (1915)
• author: The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, vol. 2 (1915)
• author: The Social Contract and Discourses (1761)