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On St. Patrick's Day, Edward and Jo Hopper attended the opening of an exhibit of the paintings of Henri Rousseau at the Museum of Modern Art, which had been organized by Daniel Catton Rich, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Serge Moscovici has been a visiting professor at the The New School in New York City, at the Rousseau Institute in Geneva, as well as at the Université catholique de Louvain and the University of Cambridge.

David Walsh, founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family, acknowledges that there is a " genuine tension &# 91 ;…&# 93 ; between Christianity and the political order " that Rousseau was acknowledging, arguing that " many Christians would, after all, agree with him that a ' Christian republic ' is a contradiction in terms " and that the twain live " in an uneasy relationship in actual states, and social cohesion has often been bought at the price of Christian universalism ".

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

French deists also included Maximilien Robespierre and Rousseau.

When Rousseau reached 20, De Warens took him as her lover, while intimate also with the steward of her house.

These men truly liked Rousseau and enjoyed his ability to converse on any subject, but they also used him as a way of getting back at Louis XV and the political faction surrounding his mistress, Mme de Pompadour.

As they began to live in groups and form clans they also began to experience family love, which Rousseau saw as the source of the greatest happiness known to humanity.

Although Rousseau argues that sovereignty ( or the power to make the laws ) should be in the hands of the people, he also makes a sharp distinction between the sovereign and the government.

The concept was also an important aspect of the more radical 17th-century republican tradition of Spinoza, from whom Rousseau differed in important respects, but not in his insistence on the importance of equality.

The revolutionaries were also inspired by Rousseau to introduce Deism as the new official civil religion of France, scandalizing traditionalists: Ceremonial and symbolic occurrences of the more radical phases of the Revolution invoked Rousseau and his core ideas.

American novelist James Fennimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans and other novels reflect republican and egalitarian ideals present alike in Rousseau, Thomas Paine, and also in English Romantic primitivism.

Melzer also believes that in admitting that people's talents are unequal, Rousseau therefore tacitly condones the tyranny of the few over the many.

Rousseau most commonly refers to 18th-century Swiss author and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and it may also refer to:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, like Shaftesbury, also insisted that man was born with the potential for goodness ; and he, too, argued that civilization, with its envy and self-consciousness, has made men bad.

The influence of Rousseau and these later writers is also large upon art and politics.

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 ).

Among Pablo Picasso's acquaintances who also frequented the Saturday evenings were: Fernande Olivier ( Picasso's mistress ), Georges Braque, André Derain, the poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin ( Apollinaire's mistress and an artist in her own right ), and Henri Rousseau.

This new interest is also reflected in literature, most notably by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ’ s best-selling romantic novel “ Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise ” ( 1761 ).

Philidor, both in England and France, was largely recognized in each of his fields and got a lot of admirers, protectors and also friends, like were the French philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau and the famous English actor David Garrick ( 1717 – 1779 ).

The late 18th century was a period of political, economic, intellectual, and cultural reforms, the Enlightenment ( represented by figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Adam Smith ), but also involving early Romanticism, and climaxing with the French Revolution, where freedom of the individual and nation was asserted against privilege and custom.

It also gives an interesting account of some conversations of the author with Voltaire and Rousseau.

1745 also saw the beginning of the bitter enmity between Rameau and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

She also had a serious romantic relationship with Theodore Rousseau, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art who was, she recalled " highly intelligent, witty and self-confident to the point of arrogance.

Later modern philosophers such as La Rochefoucauld, David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau also focused on morality, but desire was central to French thought and Hume himself tended to adopt a French worldview and temperament.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also influenced by the devastation following the earthquake, whose severity he believed was due to too many people living within the close quarters of the city.

Duclos understood what was bothering Rousseau: that the writer of the Prosopopoeia of Fabricius should now become known as the writer of an amusing little operetta.

And thus torn between his desire to be known as the composer of a successful opera and the necessity of remaining true to his proclaimed desire for anonymity, Rousseau suffered through several painful weeks.

And listening to such a conversation one morning while taking a cup of chocolate in a cafe, Rousseau found himself bathed in perspiration, trembling lest his authorship become known, and at the same time dreaming of the startling effect he would make if he should proclaim himself suddenly as the composer.

Progressive education can be traced as far back as to the works of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with both being respectively known as paternal forerunners to the ideas that would be demonstrated by the likes of Dewey.

She is well known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn on all five seasons of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 ( aired 1993-1998 ), and Danielle Rousseau on Lost.

Though best known today as a thinker, Rousseau had ambitions to be a composer.

A friendship with Rousseau, which lasted in some measure to the end, may have been due in the first instance to the fact that Rousseau had been domestic tutor in the family of Condillac's elder brother, Jean Bonnot, known as Monsieur de Mably, at Lyon.

Academic years at ENA are known as promotions, and are named by the students after outstanding French ( Vauban, Saint-Exupéry, Rousseau ), Foreigners ( Mandela ), characters ( Cyrano de Bergerac ), battles ( Valmy ), concepts ( Croix de Lorraine, Droits de l ' homme ) or values ( liberté-égalité-fraternité ).

* Henri Rousseau ( 1844 – 1910 ) the artist known as " Le Douanier "

* Henri Rousseau ( 1844 – 1910 ), known as le Douanier, painter ( birthplace )

Marsanne is also known under the synonyms Avilleran, Avilleron, Champagne Piacentina, Ermitage, Ermitage Blanc, Ermitazh, Grosse Roussette, Hermitage, Johannisberg, Marsan Belyi, Marsanne Blanche, Marzanne, Metternich, Rousseau, Roussette de Saint Peray, Roussette Grosse, White Hermitage, and Zrmitazh.

) ( 1891 ) was the first of many jungle scenes for which Rousseau is best known.

Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d ' Esclavelles d ' Épinay ( March 11, 1726 – April 17, 1783 ) was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives malicious reports of her in his Confessions.

Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men ( Discours sur l ' origine et les fondements de l ' inégalité parmi les hommes ), also commonly known as the " Second Discourse ", is a work by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Musicians especially known for playing the soprano saxophone include classical saxophonists Eugene Rousseau, Kenneth Tse, and Jean-Yves Fourmeau.

Rousseau, through the priest, leads his readers through an argument with only one concluding belief: “ natural religion .” Even more importantly, after this brief excursion into religious education, religion does not play any role in Emile ’ s life ; religion, however important to Rousseau ( Rousseau is believed to have created the Savoyard Vicar by combining the traits of two Savoyard priests whom he had known in his childhood: Abbé Gaime from Turin and Abbé Gâtier from Annecy ), is insignificant in Emile ’ s education and socialization.

Several decades later, Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-born naturalist, echoed Rousseau ’ s philosophy as he encouraged students to “ Study nature, not books .” These two influential scholars helped lay the foundation for a concrete environmental education program, known as Nature study, which took place in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

In order to open the hatch, the survivors are led by Danielle Rousseau to the wreckage of a ship known as the Black Rock, and find some dynamite.