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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Monument for Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Peter's Island, Biel, Switzerland

Biography

1712-06-28: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born in Geneva, Switzerland
1741 - 1765: Rousseau stays in Paris
1765: The Archbishop of Paris condemns Rousseau's writings, the philosopher is forced to flee and returns to Switzerland where he finds refuge on St. Peter Island, Lake of Biel
1767 - 1767: Rousseau is a guest of David Humes in England
1778-07-02: Rousseau dies in Ermenonville, Oise, France

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, though of Swiss origin, is often regarded as a French philosopher because he spent most of his life in France. Rousseau was one of the famous philosophers of the Age of Enlightment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Works

On arts and science (1750)
On the origin of inegality among human beings (1754)
Nouvelle Héloise (novel, 1761)
Emile (novel, 1762)
Contrat Social (political program, 1762)
Confessions (1764-70)


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