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Oct 30, 2005 · Didier Rousseau, Jean-Jacques' great-great-great-grandfather, arrived in Geneva in 1549 and went into business as a wine merchant. He had been a bookseller in Paris and may well have...
Five generations before Rousseau, his ancestor Didier, a bookseller who may have published Protestant tracts, had escaped persecution from French Catholics by fleeing to Geneva in 1549, where he became a wine merchant.
Didier Rousseau. A pioneer of free radio, the founder and director of various companies, a member of HEC Foundation, APM and Croissance+, Didier Rousseau is first and foremost a “serial entrepreneur”.
Jul 25, 2022 · Key Takeaways. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher with some radical ideas. He argued passionately for democracy, equality, liberty, and supporting the common good by...
Dec 12, 2023 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Swiss philosopher whose work both praised and criticised the Enlightenment movement. Although a believer in the power of reason, science, and the arts, Rousseau was convinced that a flourishing culture hid a society full of inequalities and injustices.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great 18th century philosopher, was preoccupied throughout his life with his own unstable identity, with his image, with his inner truth and with his ever-deepening sense of dislocation from others and from society in general. But this preoccupation became obsessional during the last twenty years of his life.
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Aug 20, 2024 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.
