Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Oevres completes de J J Rousseau". Citoyen de Gèneve. 1-34".Basle, De l'imprimerie de J. J. Thourneisen, 1793 - 1795.

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34 volumes, bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, contrasting gilt-lettered labels on spines. Six volumes slightly affected by light worming.
From the library of the Svaneholm estate, Skåne, with the armorial book-plate of the Hallenborg family inside upper cover of each volume.

Complete set of the rare Basle edition of Rousseau's Oeuvres completes, incorporating all of his major work on philosophy, social theory, literature, music, and education.
Volume 14, 17-8, 23-5, 29-31 dated 1793, and volume 27 dated 1794.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1712-1778], born at Geneva, philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th-century Enlightenment. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought.
His novel, Emile: or, On Education, which he considered his most important work, is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, was of great importance to the development of pre-Romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker were among the pre-eminent examples of the late 18th-century movement known as the "Age of Sensibility", featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age.
Rousseau also wrote a play and two operas, and made important contributions to music as a theorist. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes 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.

"Rousseau was the least academic of modern philosophers and in many ways was the most influential. His thought marked the end of the Age of Reason. He propelled political and ethical thinking into new channels. His reforms revolutionized taste, first in music, then in the other arts. He had a profound impact on people's way of life; he taught parents to take a new interest in their children and to educate them differently; he furthered the expression of emotion rather than polite restraint in friendship and love. He introduced the cult of religious sentiment among people who had discarded religious dogma. He opened men's eyes to the beauties of nature, and he made liberty an object of almost universal aspiration"(Encyclopædia Britannica).