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Books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was a Genevan-born philosopher whose ideas on education, politics, and human nature made him one of the defining thinkers of the Enlightenment. His other major works include Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Emile, and Confessions, an autobiographical work that helped establish modern autobiography as a form. Rousseau's relationship with the philosophes of his era was contentious, and he spent periods of his later life in exile. His ideas on natural goodness, popular sovereignty, and education continue to generate debate in political theory and educational philosophy.