Author: Barbara Foxley

Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society. Emile deals specifically with education, and outlines a system which would allow …

Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society. Emile deals specifically with education, and outlines a system which would allow …

The once banned and burned treatise on the nature of education from the eighteenth-century philosopher and author of The Social Contract.   Considered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself to be the …

Emile, or On Education or Émile, Or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who co …