Rousseauism

[roo-soh-iz-uhm]

noun

1. the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.

Other Word Forms

• Rousseauist noun
• Rousseauite noun
• Rousseauistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Rousseauism¹

First recorded in 1860–65; Rousseau + -ism

Example Sentences

In practical politics and economics, when once the unbalanced vagaries of undiluted Rousseauism had fallen into discredit, Germany produced much wise and temperate thinking which prevented the spread of the French Revolution to Germany, and provided a practical basis on which the social and political fabric could be built up anew, after the Revolution had made the old r�gime impossible in Europe.

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By Rousseauism we indicate the doctrinal dream of that dreamer; by no means the actual waking practice of the man that dreamed.

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It was all Rousseauism in experiment and reduced to absurdity.

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Having thus scientifically diagnosed the disease and prescribed the one true specific for it, namely—how simple!—the total abolition of the industries, he resumes the preaching of Rousseauism in its simon-pure form, orders every man to be his maid-of-all-work and jack-of-all-trades, puts the world on a vegetarian diet, and then wonders why the socialists denounce and revile him as a turncoat and an apostate.

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Rousseauism, however, was not merely a transitory revolt against a conventionality of life that had become unbearable; it was emphatically the voicing of a view of life and of education which has profoundly influenced Europe Rousseauism. ever since.

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