Father of romantic age

          William wordsworth father of romanticism!

          Jean-Jacques Rousseau

          Jean-Jacques Rousseau

          Rousseau by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1753

          Born(1712-06-28)28 June 1712

          Geneva, Republic of Geneva

          Died2 July 1778(1778-07-02) (aged 66)

          Ermenonville, Kingdom of France

          Era18th-century philosophy
          (early modern philosophy)
          RegionWestern philosophy
          SchoolSocial contract
          Romanticism

          Main interests

          		Political philosophy, music, education, literature, autobiography

          Notable ideas

          		General will, amour de soi, amour-propre, moral simplicity of humanity, child-centered learning, civil religion, popular sovereignty, positive liberty, public opinion

          Influences

          • Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Montesquieu, Diderot, Voltaire, D'Alembert, D'Épinay

          Influenced

          • Kant, French Revolution, American Revolution, Robespierre, Saint-Just, Counter-Enlightenment, Romanticism, Hume, Paine, Smith, Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Proudhon, Marx, Engels, Nietz