Legends of The Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of Jean Jacques Rousseau

*Includes pictures*Analyzes Rousseau's life and most famous works*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.” - Rousseau“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.” - RousseauThe grand narrative of the Enlightenment, usually recounted and understood in terms of progress and modernity, generally appears as a simplified evolution from the trappings of superstition, feudalism, and everything “irrational” to a world more similar to today’s world. Alongside the Renaissance, the Enlightenment is credited for the transition to an adherence to reason, secularism, and promotion of values such as individual and collective freedom and liberty.Of course, one of the towering figures of the age was Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose works were essential to the ideological developments of the 18th century. The prestige of French li