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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile. Rousseau was also a widely loved composer and philosopher. His philosophy had great influence during the French Enlightenment and throughout all of Europe.
Confessions
The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings
The Social Contract
The Social Contract and The Discourses
A Discourse on Inequality
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
The Essential Rousseau
The Confessions

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Confessions
The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings
The Social Contract
The Social Contract and The Discourses
A Discourse on Inequality
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
The Essential Rousseau
The Confessions

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