Rousseau and Romanticism

Babbitt, Irving

ISBN 10 : 0887388884 ISBN 13 : 9780887388880

Editeur : Routledge, 1991

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Mant readers will no doubt be tonpted to exclaiin on seeing my title: Rousseau and no end! The outpour of books on Bousseau had indeed in the period immediately preceding the war become somewhat portentous. This preoccupation with Bousseau is after all essy to explain. It is his somewhat formidable privilege to represent more fully than any other one person a great international movement. To attack Rousseau or to defend him is most often only a wby of attacking or defending this movement. It is from this point of view at a Uevents that the present work is conceived. I have not undertaki a systematic study of Rousseau slife and doctrines. The appearance of his name in my title is justified, if at all, simply because he comes at a fairly eariy stage in the international movement the rise and growtii of which I am tracing, and has on the whole supplied me with the most significant illustrations of it. I have already pot forth certain views regarding this movement in three previous volumes. Thou each one of these volumes attempts to do justice to a particular topic, it is at the same time intended to be a link in a continuous argument. I hope that I may be allowed to speek here with some frankness of the main trend of tiiis argument both on its negative and on its positive, or constructive, side. Perhaps the best key to bothsides of my argument is found See, for example, in vo Lcc of the A rrnd Usde la SocUU Jean-J acques i2(m 8eau the bibliography (pp. 87-276) for 1912 the year (the bioiteoaiy. LU eratwre and the American Ccl Oege (1908); The New Laokoan (1910); The Masien (if Modem French Crilieim
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought. Rousseau's novel Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings — his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker — exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing. His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. Rousseau was a successful composer of music, who wrote seven operas as well as music in other forms, and made contributions to music as a theorist. As a composer, his music was a blend of the late Baroque style and the emergent Classical fashion, and he belongs to the same generation of transitional composers as Christoph Willibald Gluck and C. P. E. Bach. One of his more well-known works is the one-act opera Le devin du village, containing the duet "Non, Colette n'est point trompeuse" which was later rearranged as a standalone song by Beethoven. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club. Rousseau was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0887388884
• ISBN 13: 9780887388880
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 510