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Emilius and Sophia
or,
A New System of Education
by
J. J. Rousseau
Translated from the French of Mr. J.J. Rousseau,
Citizen of Geneva, by The Translator of Eloisa
Volumes III and IV only of Four-Volume Set
T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, London, 1763, first English edition. Full leather over boards, 12mos (4 x 6.7 inches), b&w frontispiece engraving in each volume, 268 + 292 + index.
The first edition in English of Emile, published a year after the French edition.
Emile, or On Education was considered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau to be the “best and most important of all my writings”. On its first appearance in 1762 it was publicly burned.[
As its title implies, Emile is a treatise on the nature of education but also on the nature of man. It tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society— how, in particular, he or she might have any hope of retaining what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness while remaining part of a corrupting collectivity. Its opening sentence: “Everything is good in leaving the hands of the Creator of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man.”
Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract (1762) to survive corrupt society. He employs the novelistic device of Emile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children. It is regarded by some as the first philosophy of education in the Western culture to have a serious claim to completeness, as well as being the first Bildungsroman, having preceded Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by more than thirty years.
The text is divided into five books: the first three are dedicated to the child Emile, the fourth to an exploration of the adolescent, and the fifth to outlining the education of his female counterpart Sophie, as well as to Emile’s domestic and civic life.
No sooner was it published than the section of the book titled, “Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar” caused it to be banned in Paris and Geneva and burned. It became a European bestseller. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education.
Condition:
Fair. (Covers have heavy wear. Spine leather is dried, heavily chipped and crackled, and is coated with thick glue layer. Boards have been reattached but are delicate. Age browned paper. Soiled endpapers. Missing pieces on fore-edges of blank endpapers. Clean and complete texts.)
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