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2003), Mary Louise Roberts' Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France (Chicago, 2002), and Lori Jo Marso's (Un)Manly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women (Chapel Hill, NC, 2002). To get a sense of its great influence, consider the roster of philosophers who fall firmly within it: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and John Rawls. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century literary writer whose works on politics had a direct influence on the French and American revolutions, whose educational analysis affected the world of schooling, and whose Confessions fostered the art of autobiography: the many facets of his original writings and influences which produced them are revealed in Leo Damrosch 's Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genuis (0618446966, $30. |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 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)