Jean Jacques Rousseau · Politics

The Education of Emile

Rousseau’s vision of an education that follows nature instead of crushing it - and the contradictions that haunt his most influential book.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Rousseau’s Emile is educated ‘according to nature.’ Explain what that means and one tension hidden inside it, in your own words.

Leads to Mary Wollstonecraft.

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