Author: Gabriel Compayré
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This book is a lengthy work of literary criticism on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile; or, On Education. Rousseau considered Émile his best and most important work, however, because of the chapter entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar," the book was banned in Paris and Geneva and publicly burned the year it was published. Émile proposes a system of education that maintains the value of the individual within a corrupt society