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Matthew Kirkpatrick

AZRousseau.jpgDespite a childhood of poverty, homelessness, and abandonment by his family, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) became a celebrated novelist, composer, and philosopher, influencing the counter-Enlightenment, Kant, the Romantics, and the French Revolution.

Rousseau's main contributions to the history of thought are his intertwined theories of human nature and ...

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