{"product_id":"9780977472420","title":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","description":"\u003cp\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench author and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) published The Social Contract,Discourse of Inequality, Émile and many other great works and ideas that have profoundly influenced modern education, politics and psychology theories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJJ Rousseau broke away from the authoritarianism and rationalism of his day to champion inborn human rights and native intuition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLowell Bair Translator of French literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis works as a political philosopher influenced and fascinated minds as different as those of Hume, Kant, Goethe, Byron, Shiller and in recent times John Dewey and Claude Levi-Strauss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMathew Josephson. The Essential Rousseau. Plume Books 1974\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince his early life Matthew Josephson (1899-1978) showned extreme versatility: he wrote poetry, extensive biographies (Zola, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Stendhal and  Edison) essays on political issues, newspaper articles, personal chronicles (Life Among the Surrealists: A Memoir) . Today he is best known as the author of The Robber Barons, He was also an experienced and successful Wall Street broker and businessman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosephson's chief concerns were nineteenth-century French literature and twentieth-century American capitalism. In the 1920's he lived in Paris and Berlin where he became acquainted with the European Dadaists and Surrealists suchas Paul Eluard, André Breton, Louis Aragon, and Max Ernst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid E. Shi.Matthew Josephson, Bourgeois Bohemian, Yale University, 1981  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jorge Pinto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49898490626288,"sku":"9780977472420","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780977472420","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}