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- adjective Of or relating to Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose political philosophy influenced the
French Revolution .
Etymologies
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In the pursuit of which, I embraced misanthropy, and publicly (academically) defended Hannibal Lector as a tragic Rousseauan figure.
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In the pursuit of which, I embraced misanthropy, and publicly academically defended Hannibal Lector as a tragic Rousseauan figure.
GoogleHer 2008
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In the pursuit of which, I embraced misanthropy, and publicly academically defended Hannibal Lector as a tragic Rousseauan figure.
Archive 2008-07-13 2008
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The crisp, positive, efficient, no-nonsense economist is the Lockean; the deep, brooding, somber psychoanalyst is the Rousseauan.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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The crisp, positive, efficient, no-nonsense economist is the Lockean; the deep, brooding, somber psychoanalyst is the Rousseauan.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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There is no Rousseauan nature that antedated the state and no revolutionary paradise to be found after the supposed "withering away" of the state.
Paris: Moses and Polytheism Sheehan, Thomas 1980
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The Times editorial board is nothing more than a band of Rousseauan fundamentalists who never read Rousseau in their life.
AMERICAN DIGEST 2008
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"This ought to be a paradise -- a Rousseauan state of nature, uncorrupted by authority and custom, where all readers and writers are free and equal.
Critical Mass 2008
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"This ought to be a paradise -- a Rousseauan state of nature, uncorrupted by authority and custom, where all readers and writers are free and equal.
Critical Mass 2008
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