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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ˈʒak ʁuˈso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educational thought.

His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. Rousseau's sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise (1761) was important to the development of preromanticism and romanticism in fiction. His Emile, or On Education (1762) is an educational treatise on the place of the individual in society. Rousseau's autobiographical writings—the posthumously published Confessions (composed in 1769), which initiated the modern autobiography, and the unfinished Reveries of a Solitary Walker (composed 1776–1778)—exemplified the late-18th-century "Age of Sensibility", and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing.

Rousseau befriended fellow philosophy writer Denis Diderot in 1742, and would later write about Diderot's romantic troubles in his Confessions. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophers among members of the Jacobin Club. He was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.

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Siden Th. Hobbes og John Locke ('Anden afhandling') havde det ordnede sociale fællesskab været begrundet i en samfundskontrakt: en delvis afgivelse af frihed mod en sikring af liv, ret og ro. Rousseau søgte en kontrakt, der ikke afgav frihed og nåede frem til en model, hvor almenviljen står i centrum: alles fælles vilje, som man i glæde underkaster sig i troen på, at den totale personlige frihed er bevaret. Udkom 1762 og inspirerede Den franske Revolution, der kom til at vise, at almenviljen i de gale hænder førte til hidtil ukendte rædsler, terror og ufrihed.
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