Emile or Education (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781406792232)

This philosophical romance called by Lord Morley 'one of the seminal books' and by others 'the child's charter, ' has a new introduction by Andre Coutet de Monvel, Professor of French Literature, Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni. The work 'has been the inspirational source of every great educational reformer since the eighteenth century, ' says Proffesor Boutet de Monvel but its influence has extended far beyond the confines of education, and its effect upon the ideas of several generations has covered a much wider sphere. Emile became indeed one of the major textbooks of the French Evolution and of European Romanticism, and Mirabeau ranked it among the masterpieces of the ag

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN-10: 1406792233
ISBN-13: 9781406792232
Publisher: Pomona Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.02d