Rousseauism
noun
the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
Rousseauite
-
a word derived from
Rousseauism.
Example Sentences
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He felt that the troubles of Carlos and the queen could not be regarded under the Rousseauite scheme of natural passion battling with odious convention, but that the passion was itself odious.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
The old Rousseauite point of view is here completely abandoned.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
But the received view Is that the Girondins were Voltairean, and the Jacobins Rousseauite, while Danton was of the school of the Encyclopaedia, and Hébert and Chaumette were inspired by Holbach.
From Studies in Literature by John Morley
From Rousseauite literature he had caught a fantastic conception of 'nature', and this had led him to portray men and women who were scarcely more natural than those of Gottsched himself.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
At any rate the air was surcharged with Rousseauite feeling.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
