The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau (Cambridge Companions to by Patrick Riley

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By Patrick Riley

Universally considered as the best French political theorist and thinker of schooling of the Enlightenment, and doubtless the best French social theorist tout courtroom, Rousseau used to be a tremendous forerunner of the French Revolution, although his inspiration was once too nuanced and refined ever to function mere ideology. This 2001 quantity systematically surveys the total variety of Rousseau's actions in politics and schooling, psychology, anthropology, faith, song and theater.

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