 Title page of Rousseau's Emile | |
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
|---|---|
| Language | French |
| Subject | Pedagogy |
Publication date | 1762 |
| Publication place | Republic of Geneva and France |
Published in English | 1763 |
Emile, or On Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings.[1] Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar", Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication.[2] It was forbidden by the Church being listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.[a] During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education.[3] After the American Revolution, Noah Webster used content from Emile in his best-selling schoolbooks and he also used it to argue for the civic necessity of broad-based female education.[4]
- ^ Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Confessions. Trans. J.M. Cohen. New York: Penguin (1953), 529-30.
- ^ E. Montin, "Introduction to J. Rousseau's Émile: or, Treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau", William Harold Payne, transl. (D. Appleton & Co., 1908) p. 316.
- ^ Jean Bloch traces the reception of Emile in France, particularly amongst the revolutionaries, in his book Rousseauism and Education in Eighteenth-century France Oxford: Voltaire Foundation (1995).
- ^ Harris, Micah (2024-09-01). "Noah Webster and the Influence of Rousseau on Education in America, 1785–1835". American Political Thought. 13 (4): 505–527. doi:10.1086/732277. ISSN 2161-1580.
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