![]() ![]() Rousseau grew up in beautiful, rural Switzerland, which taught him to love nature however, thanks to his irresponsible father, Rousseau never learned self-discipline, nor did he have any patience with external controls. Rousseau's mother died at his birth, and his father raised him with no discipline and very little education. ![]() The high priest of Romanticism was Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). `The., across which, so strangely and so horribly, he had caught glimpses of what he had never seen before, was not the abyss between heaven and hell, but between the old world and the new.'" (Ayer, 171) Strachey's comment on this is that Diderot was wrong. One of the enlightenment philosophes, Denis Diderot, described Rousseau as a madman and a damned soul and "wrote that the poets had been right in placing an immense interval between heaven and hell, implying that Rousseau resided in hell. While we still think of Voltaire as a symbol of the power of reason, his contemporary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, was one of the early, prominent voices of nineteenth century romanticism. The romantic writers and poets made a genuine break with the rational, orderly thinking of the eighteenth century Enlightenment. ![]()
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