THE ATHENAEUMEmileJean-Jacques Rousseau
Contested
Emile
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textRousseau’s treatise of 1762 on bringing up a child according to nature, the boy Emile learning from things rather than books. Its chapter on religion, the Creed of a Savoyard Priest, had it burned in Paris and in Geneva, and Rousseau fled to avoid arrest. It changed how Europe thought about childhood all the same.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 16 hr 50 min
- Where to find it
- The Unwelcome Spines, beyond the Restricted Catalogue
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #5427. In the public domain in the United States.