Rousseau had to admit that though he couldn't agree to a public performance, he would indeed, just for his own private satisfaction, dearly love to know how his work would sound when done by professional musicians and by trained voices.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

Augustine ( 354 – 430 ) applied the title Confessions to his autobiographical work, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau used the same title in the 18th century, initiating the chain of confessional and sometimes racy and highly self-critical, autobiographies of the Romantic era and beyond.

Many of his late paintings celebrate farm life, including many where he used his work horse " Rousseau " as a model.

The king was so pleased by the work that he offered Rousseau a lifelong pension.

In 1755, Rousseau completed his second major work, the Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men ( the Discourse on Inequality ), which elaborated on the arguments of the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.

In 1772, Rousseau was invited to present recommendations for a new constitution for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the Considerations on the Government of Poland, which was to be his last major political work.

In 1776, he completed Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques and began work on the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.

It was the country versus the city — an exasperating idea for them, as was the amazing fact that every new work of Rousseau ’ s was a huge success, whether the subject was politics, theater, education, religion, or a novel about love.

Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau and Kant.

In the 18th century the work was even called a satire, for example by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

In addition to systematic work in moral theory, Gauthier's main philosophical interests are in the history of political philosophy, with special attention to Hobbes and Rousseau, and in the theory of practical rationality, where he begins from an attempt to understand economic rationality, rather than from Kantian or Aristotelian antecedents.

He invaded the visual arts — not only in the work of Willette, but also in the illustrations and posters of Jules Chéret ; in the engravings of Odilon Redon ( The Swamp Flower: A Sad Human Head ); and in the canvases of Georges Seurat ( Pierrot with a White Pipe ; The Painter Aman-Jean as Pierrot ), Léon Comerre ( Pierrot ), Henri Rousseau ( A Carnival Night ), Paul Cézanne ( Pierrot and Harlequin ), Fernand Pelez ( Grimaces and Miseries a. k. a. The Saltimbanques ), Pablo Picasso ( Pierrot and Columbine ), Guillaume Seignac ( Pierrot's Embrace ), and Edouard Vuillard ( The Black Pierrot 1890 ).

Similarly, liberalism draws upon the work of Kant and Rousseau, with the work of the former often being cited as the first elaboration of democratic peace theory.

Rousseau then claimed the two had stolen the credit for the words and music he had contributed, though musicologists have been able to identify almost nothing of the piece as Rousseau's work.

Rousseau was a major participant in the second great quarrel that erupted over Rameau's work, the so-called Querelle des Bouffons of 1752 – 54, which pitted French tragédie en musique against Italian opera buffa.

Camille Paglia considers Sade's work a " satirical response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau " in particular, and the Enlightenment concept of man's innate goodness in general.

His work is a criticism of the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher whose ideas influenced the French Revolution.

Whereas naïve art ideally describes the work of an artist who did not receive formal education in an art school or academy, for example Henri Rousseau or Alfred Wallis, ' pseudo naïve ' or ' faux naïve ' art describes the work of an artist working in a more imitative or self-conscious mode and whose work can be seen as more imitative than original.

The practice of singing music to syllables designating pitch goes back to about AD 1000 with the work of Guido of Arezzo ; other early work in this area includes the cipher notation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 18th century ), and the tonic sol-fa of John Curwen ( 19th century ).

In essence, early socialists contended that the emergence of competitive market societies did not create " liberty, equality and fraternity " for all citizens, requiring the intervention of politics and social reform to tackle social problems, injustices and grievances ( a topic on which Jean-Jacques Rousseau discourses at length in his classic work The Social Contract ).

During this period, Athanasius completed his work Four Orations against the Arians and defended his own recent conduct in the Apology to Constantius and Apology for His Flight.

The other band members denied Biafra's accusations regarding the live releases, and have defended the mixes as an effort of hard work.

Sapir's work on Takelma became his doctoral dissertation which he defended in 1908.

In a 2008 essay he " defended the right of programmers to issue work under proprietary licenses because I think that if a programmer wants to write a program and sell it, it's neither my business nor anyone else's but his customer's what the terms of sale are ".

* a supplement to the last-named work, also against Marcellus, entitled Ecclesiastical Theology, in which he defended the Nicene doctrine of the Logos against the party of Athanasius.

Rapper Kanye West defended Way by arguing that the younger artist created a new, original work for hip hop, thus keeping the authentic meaning of the music.

Aleksandrov defended his work by arguing the notion of laughter for laughter ’ s sake.

Flaherty defended his work by stating that a filmmaker must often distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

Désiré Charnay, the first archaeologist to work at Tula, Hidalgo, defended the historicist views based on his impression of the Toltec capital, and was the first to note similarities in architectural styles between Tula and Chichén Itza.

His most important original philosophical work was The Incoherence of the Incoherence ( Tahafut al-tahafut ), in which he defended Aristotelian philosophy against al-Ghazali's claims in The Incoherence of the Philosophers ( Tahafut al-falasifa ).

His most important original philosophical work was The Incoherence of the Incoherence ( Tahafut al-tahafut ), in which he defended Aristotelian philosophy against al-Ghazali's claims in The Incoherence of the Philosophers ( Tahafut al-falasifa ).

Kripke's position has, however recently been defended against these and other attacks by the Cambridge philosopher Martin Kusch ( 2006 ), and Wittgenstein scholar David G. Stern considers the book to be " the most influential and widely discussed " work on Wittgenstein since the 1980s.

It is neither the work nor the gift of the exploiting classes, and it will be defended by those who, with sacrifices accumulated over generations, have imposed it.

In 2010 EY, in a letter to the firm's key clients, defended its audit work for Lehman Brothers.

A few weeks later, he defended his brilliant doctoral work and became a Doctor of Divinity.

The results of this work are defended in an oral examination before two Marlboro professors, and one outside evaluator who has expertise in the student's field of study but is not connected with the college.

John Williams once again went to work, spurred by the fact that the roof was now on fire, as Hook defended the hole and Waters continued to fire through a loophole.

Andrew Neil, the editor of the Sunday Times, called Irving " reprehensible ", but defended hiring Irving because he was only a " transcribing technician ", which others criticised as a poor description of translation work.

) It would appear that, as they defended themselves before democratic-sympathizing Athenian jurymen, Theramenes ' former comrades in the oligarchy attempted to exculpate themselves by associating their actions with those of Theramenes and portraying him as a steadfast defender of the Athenian democracy ; examples of such accounts can be found in the Histories of Diodorus Siculus and in the " Theramenes papyrus ", a fragmentary work discovered in the 1960s.

Camden successfully defended himself against the charges in subsequent editions of the work.

Later he counselled conscientious objectors to compulsory military service and defended Jehovah's Witnesses in court who even refused to do community work instead of military service because of their absolute conscientious objection.

In response, Ratramnus composed the two-book work On the Predestination of God ( De Praedestinatione Dei ), in which he defended double predestination, while objecting to the notion of predestination to sin.

In this work, Ratramnus defended the idea that Christ ’ s birth from the Virgin Mary occurred in the natural human way, so as to not detract from Christ ’ s real human nature.

The built-up area initially included only the acropolis ( the north-east zone comprising the Cathedral, Tufoli gate, and Piazza Dante ) and partially defended by walls in opus quasi-quadratum ( almost squared work ).

His tenure of the Foreign Office was noteworthy for the famous dispatch in which he defended Italian independence: " Her Majesty's Government will turn their eyes rather to the gratifying prospect of a people building up the edifice of their liberties, and consolidating the work of their independence, amid the sympathies and good wishes of Europe " ( 27 October 1860 ).