| Emile Contributor(s): Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486497348 ISBN-13: 9780486497341 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - General |
| Dewey: 370.1 |
| LCCN: 2015413516 |
| Lexile Measure: 1130 |
| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 5.25" W x 8.24" (1.14 lbs) 544 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A foundational text of Western education, this 1762 treatise served as a model for a new approach to teaching during the French Revolution. Emile recounts a boy's education, and Rousseau considered it the most important of his writings. With its theories on the retention of innate human goodness and the avoidance of corruption from bourgeois society, the book offers prime examples of the author's philosophy. Rousseau's five-part approach devotes the first three sections to Emile's early education, including the child's interactions with the larger world and the selection of a trade. The fourth part explores the cultivation of sentiment, with particular focus on natural religion. The book concludes with a profile of Emile's prospective bride, Sophie, that emphasizes the role of mothers in educating their children but encourages women to be submissive to their husbands--a view that excited controversy even among Rousseau's contemporaries and helped inspire Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. |