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George Rousseau
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Migration
A year's sabbatical in 1993-94 as Waynflete Visiting Professor at Magdalen College Oxford persuaded me my batteries needed recharging; besides, I had always been a European of sorts, as was my mother. I took early retirement from the University of California in 1994 enabled by years of service and migrated to England after having been elected to a Regius Chair in Scotland (a crown appointment). I lived in awe of the opportunities afforded by America's great research universities, which were unique, but also recognized my need for change. The best UK universities were less well funded but had historically created an atmosphere encouraging creativity, especially in the Humanities, and – to their advantage – were also less politically correct or fiercely competitive. I had been traveling to England for three decades and knew I could live there without camouflaging my predilection for high culture rather than ‘American popular-cool’. Cambridge and Oxford were more genuinely interdisciplinary too: the collegiate system makes for a natural interdisciplinarity impossible to rival in high-end, six-figure salaries, non-collegiate American institutions lorded over by wealthy individual academic departments.
The writing I have done since lea
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan athenian, writer, last composer (1712–1778)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
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Portrait indifference Maurice Quentin de Reporting Tour, 1753 | |
| Born | (1712-06-28)28 June 1712 Geneva, Republic preceding Geneva |
| Died | 2 July 1778(1778-07-02) (aged 66) Ermenonville, Picardy, Monarchy of France |
| Partner | Thérèse Levasseur (1745–1778) |
| Era | Age of Enlightenment (early modern philosophy) |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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Main interests | Political philosophy, euphony, education, literature |
Notable ideas | General liking, amour criticism soi, amour-propre, moral uncomplicatedness of society, child-centered field, civil 1 popular jurisdiction, positive unrestraint, public opinion |
| Writing career | |
| Language | French |
| Genres | |
| Subject | Social change |
| Literary movement | Sentimentalism |
| Years active | From 1743 |
| Notable works | The Social Contract Julie, or representation New Heloise |
| Notable awards | Académie cause to move Dijon (1750) |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ;[1][2]French:[ʒɑ̃ʒakʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philo
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George Rousseau
American historian
George Sebastian Rousseau (born February 23, 1941)[1] is an American cultural historian resident in the United Kingdom.
Early life and education
[edit]George Rousseau was educated at Amherst College and Princeton University, where he obtained his doctorate.
Academic career
[edit]From 1966 to 1968 George Rousseau was a member of the English Faculty at Harvard University before moving to a professorship at UCLA, and later to the Regius Chair of English at Aberdeen University in Aberdeen, Scotland.[2] He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines.[3] Since then he has been attached to the History Faculty at Oxford University in Oxford, England, where he was the Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood from 2003 until his retirement in 2013. The endowed George Rousseau Lecture, delivered each year by a distinguished cultural or intellectual historian, is given annually in Magdalen College Oxford University.[4]
Rousseau is a cultural historian[5] who works in the interface of literature and medicine, and emphasizes the relevance of imaginative materials - literature, especially diaries and biography, art and architecture, music - for the public understandin