Rousseau Patriarchal Structure

Rousseau Patriarchal Structure

The Swiss-born philosopher and political theorist, Jean Jacques Rousseau ranks as one of the greatest figures of the French Enlightenment. Yet Jean Jacques Rousseau the man and his writings constitute a problem for anyone who wants to grasp to understand his life and work. One interpreter has called Rousseau “an irresponsible writer with a fatal gift for epigram.” He has been variously called the founder of the Romantic Movement in literature and the intellectual father of the French Revolution, among other labels. Rousseau is a contradiction, a severe moralist who lived a dangerously “relaxed” life, ...