Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712–1778)

Franco-Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Works

  • Speech on the Arts and Sciences (1750, Discours sur les sciences et les arts)
  • Narcissus, or the Self-Admirer (1753, Narcisse, ou l'Amant de lui-même) 1767 translation
  • Discourse on Political Economy (1755, Discours d’économie politique)
  • A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind (1755, Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes), 1761 translation
  • Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men (1755, Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes), translated by G. D. H. Cole
  • Disours sur l'inegalite , trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)
  • Letters to M. D'Alembert on the Theater (1758, Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectacles)
  • The New Heloise (1761, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse)
  • Emile, or On Education (1762, Émile, ou De l’éducation)
    • vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4
    • Payne translation 1892
    • Émile or education, trans. by Barbara Foxley (1911)
    • Emile, trans. by Eleanor Worthington (1883)
    • Emilius, or, An essay on education, trans. by Mr Nugent (1763)
    • Minor Educational Writings, trans. by William Boyd (1910)
    • Emile, trans. by William Harold Payen (1763)
  • The Creed of a Savoyard Priest (Profession de foi du vicaire savoyard) external scan
  • The Social Contract (1762, Du contrat social) 1764 translation
    • Contrat social (First Version) , trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)
    • Contrat social (Final Version) , trans. by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1915)
    • The Social Contract, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (1895)
    • The social contract; or, Principles of political right, trans. by Henry John Tozer (1895)
    • The social contract; or, The principles of political rights, trans. by Rose M. Harrington (1893)
  • Letters Written from the Mountain (1764, Lettres de la montagne)
  • A concise and genuine account of the dispute between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau, 1766 (external scan)
  • The cunning-man: drama by Charles Burney, 1766 (external scan)
  • A complete dictionary of music, 1779 (external scan)
  • Eloisa, Or, A Series of Original Letters, 1784 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Considerations on the Government of Poland (1782)
  • Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782, Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire)
  • Confessions (Rousseau) (1782–1789, Les Confessions) vol 1, vol 2
  • Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a lady, by the celebrated J. J. Rousseau (1771-1773, Lettres (élémentaires) sur la botanique à Madame Delessert) external scan
    • Thirty-eight plates, with explanations, intended to illustrate Linnaeus's system of vegetables: and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany

by Thomas Martyn, 1735-1825; Publication date 1788 external scan

Works about Rousseau

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