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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Swiss philosopher

A surname, originally a French nickname for someone with red hair

{i} family name; Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Swiss born French politician and philosopher, author of the novel "Emile

French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778) French primitive painter (1844-1910)

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Henri Rousseau

a French artist who painted using bright colours and often had exotic (=unusual and foreign) subjects (1844-1910). known as Le Douanier Rousseau born May 21, 1844, Laval, Fr. died Sept. 2, 1910, Paris French painter. After service in the army, he began working as a toll collector (not as a douanier, or customs officer, the epithet his friends later used) but found time to paint and draw. Completely self-taught, he exhibited some early paintings, including Carnival Evening, at the Salon des Indépendants in 1886. Like his later works, it is typical of naive art: everything is drawn literally, the clouds look solid, and the costumes receive more attention than the figures themselves. It nonetheless achieves a striking mood and mystery. In 1893 he retired to devote himself to painting, and in 1894 his War won him his first recognition by the avant-garde. His best-known works are richly coloured images of lush jungles, wild beasts, and exotic figures. He exhibited The Hungry Lion with the Fauves in 1905. He died a pauper; only after his death was his greatness recognized

Jean Jacques Rousseau

(1712-1778) Swiss born French politician and philosopher, author of the novel "Emile

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

a French writer and philosopher, born in Switzerland, whose book The Social Contract developed the idea that governments must always work according to the wishes of the people. His work had a great influence on the French Revolution, and he invented the phrase, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", which was later used by people who supported the Revolution. He also wrote about the noble savage (1712-78). born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switz. died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France Swiss-French philosopher. At age 16 he fled Geneva to Savoy, where he became the steward and later the lover of the baronne de Warens. At age 30, having furthered his education and social position under her influence, he moved to Paris, where he joined Denis Diderot at the centre of the philosophes; he wrote on music and economics for Diderot's Encyclopédie. His first major work, the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750), argued that man is good by nature but has been corrupted by society and civilization; Rousseau's belief in the natural goodness of man set him apart from Roman Catholic writers who, like him, were hostile to the idea of progress. He also wrote music; his light opera The Cunning-Man (1752) was widely admired. In 1752 he became involved in an influential dispute with Jean-Philippe Rameau over the relative merits of French and Italian music; Rousseau championed the latter. In the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men (1754), he argued against Thomas Hobbes that human life before the formation of societies was healthy, happy, and free and that vice arose as the result of social organization and especially the introduction of private property. Civil society, he held, comes into being only to ensure peace and to protect property, which not everyone has; it thus represents a fraudulent social contract that reinforces inequality. In the Social Contract (1762), which begins with the memorable line, "Man was born free, but he is everywhere in chains," Rousseau argues that a civil society based on a genuine social contract rather than a fraudulent one would provide people with a better kind of freedom in exchange for their natural independence, namely, political liberty, which he understands as obedience to a self-imposed law created by the "general will." In 1762 the publication of Émile, a treatise on education, produced outrage, and Rousseau was forced to flee to Switzerland. He began showing signs of mental instability 1767, and he died insane. His Confessions (1781-88), which he modeled on the work of the same title by St. Augustine, is among the most famous autobiographies

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Rous·seau

Türkische aussprache

rusō

Aussprache

/ro͞oˈsō/ /ruːˈsoʊ/

Etymologie

() Originally a French nickname for someone with red hair. Cognate to English Russell.