书目

Emile: or On Education

内容简介

InhispioneeringtreatiseoneducationthegreatFrenchphilosopherJean-JacquesRousseau(1712-1778)presentsconceptsthathadasignificantinfluenceonthedevelopmentofpedagogyintheeighteenthcentury,andyetmanyofhisideasstillsoundradicaltoday.WritteninreactiontothestultifyingsystemofrotelearningandmemorizationprevalentthroughoutEuropeatthetime,Emileisautopianvisionofchild-centerededucation,fullofthesentimentsofRomanticism,amovementthatRousseauinspired.ImaginingatypicalboynamedEmile,Rousseaucreatesanidealmodelofone-on-onetutelagefrominfancytomanhoodwithhimselfasthechild'smentor.Asinsomanyofhisotherfamousworks,here,too,Rousseauassertshismainthesisthathumanbeingsarebynaturegood;itisonlythedistortinginfluencesofcivilizationthathavecorruptedthem.

作者简介

JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAUwasborninGenevain1712.HisremarkablenovelLanouvelleHéloise(1761),metwithimmediateandenormoussuccess.InthisandinÉmile,whichfollowedayearlater,Rousseauinvokedtheinviolabilityofpersonalidealsagainstthepowerofthestateandthepressuresofsociety.ThecrowningachievementofhispoliticalphilosophywasTheSocialContract,publishedin1762.Thatsameyearhewroteanattackonrevealedreligion,theProfessiondefoiduvicairesavoyard.HewasdrivenfromSwitzerlandandfledtoEnglandwhereheonlysucceededinmakinganenemyofHumeandreturnedtohiscontinentalperegrinations.In1770RousseaucompletedhisConfessions.HislastyearswerespentlargelyinFrancewherehediedin1778.

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