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Emile, or On Education
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Please read the last chapter first. If you can accept Rousseau at his most offensive, then maybe you should continue with the rest of the book. Personally, I'm enough of a feminist that I cannot stand this work. I have heard too much praise for this work by so many who haven't finished it (i.e. read Rousseau's treatment of Sophie) that I will refuse to discuss it altogether.
If you're of the "but, gender issues aside" persuasion, you should consider that at the time, there was enough feminist perspective, and we're not talking radical (think Austen), that apology is not appropriate.
If you're of the "but, gender issues aside" persuasion, you should consider that at the time, there was enough feminist perspective, and we're not talking radical (think Austen), that apology is not appropriate.
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It embodies something that is wrong with some Feminisms and Feminists, Chef--there are many and this sort of narrowness isn't shared by all.
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yes, have to say that you may be a feminist, of a sort, but you are no historian. and Austen is your touchstone; are you kidding? wollstonecraft laughs in your face.
You are the problem with society.
It is a book which has had too much influence, even to the present day, though I suspect few of those who quote it have actually read it. (Or maybe translations soften his thesis?)The bare-faced effrontery of a man who dumped his 5 children at the founding’s hospital as newborns without a backward look, in writing a treatise on educating a child which requires 1:1 supervision 24/7 for years on end, and preventing that child from reading, till quite old, manipulating their experiences completely. It’s child abuse, brainwashing...
Damn, I got furious reading his opinion on how women should behave. He, a great philosopher, doesn’t like women at all, he sees women as a mean. And I can’t believe how this kind of idea spread in European in 18th century and how it affects men today.
