1762 ANTIQUE BOOK ROUSSEAU EMILE TREATISE ON EDUCATION POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 1stE

Description: Antique book published by Jean Neaulme in Amsterdam during the year MDCCLXII (1762). Leather binding. Text in french.382 pages, 17 x 10.5 x 2.5 cm.Acceptable/Good condition in general (inner binding issues, book does not open perfectly, worn binding where stains, scratches, rubbed/discolored/splotchy parts, few holes, cracks near spine, bent corners, cracks/holes on spine as well & pieces of leather/cardboard missing from boards' corners/edges, foxing, yellow/brown stains, few creases, minor piece of paper missing from few leaves' corners/margin not affecting text, few leaves more-foxed-than-the-average, two leaves partially stuck together as per one of the uploaded photos, few leaves not so firmly attached to binding being partially loose, endpaper unmounted from inner side of front board).Shipping costs via registered mail (tracking number provided): $16. *Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the “best and most important of all my writings”. Due to a section of the book entitled “Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar”, Emile would be banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. The work tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society-how, in particular, the individual might retain what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness while remaining part of a corrupting collectivity. Its opening sentence: “Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man”. Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract (1762) to survive corrupt society. He employs the novelistic device of Εmile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. Εmile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children. It is regarded by some as the first philosophy of education in Western culture to have a serious claim to completeness, as well as being the first Bildungsroman, having preceded Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by more than thirty years. Book IV: Once Émile is physically strong and learns to carefully observe the world around him, he is ready for the last part of his education-sentiment.Note: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a major Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy heavily influenced the French Revolution, as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. His novel, Émile: or, On Education is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, was of great importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction.

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