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Camus seems to abandon his view of man as a Rousseauistic innocent trapped in the vise of the human condition, and almost adopts the metaphysics of original sin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Ritter's dream was to get away from it all, live a Rousseauistic life on an uninhabited island.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Harold Bell Wright mentality wrestling with a Rousseauistic sentiment might have evolved as much.

From Time Magazine Archive

The existential hero of nothingness encounters the Rousseauistic myth of the innocent child of nature, the noblest savage of them all.

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The Rousseauistic naturalist threw off traditional control because he wished to be more imaginative.

From Aspects of Literature by Murry, J. Middleton