The Enlightenment with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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The Gap Year, a Friend's Recommendation for a Second Language
Rousseau was a philosopher, writer and composer as well. Born in geneva, so swiss rather than french, and not exactly scauseGeneva at that point was the huguenot republic run by a few wealthy families. Was catapulted to fame by winning an essay competition. And very rapidly became a rock star of the intellectual life. He lived largely off patrons, reflectively biting the hand that fed him. His own family was downwardly mobile. A his father abandoned him. Flirted with the idea of being a priest ah,. but he flirted with a lot of other women as well. Converted t catholicism, converted back to it's an amazing life
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