Example sentences for: rousseau

How can you use “rousseau” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When the reaction is not faux-naïf, it is censorious: Shut up and sublimate . Practitioners of self-exposure are many these days, of course, and none of them is Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

  • And later, à la Rousseau, "As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European mind: I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust."

  • Diderot’s Encyclopédie championed reason over traditional religion, Rousseau discoursed on the origins of inequality, Voltaire shot at everything that didn’t move.

  • The national infrastructure is fraying, with little renewal: Belgians have a high per-capita income and spend it generously on cars and dining, but what Rousseau called the esprit social seems lacking.

  • The consumer-centric "long boom" of the 1990s seems utterly distant from the dry post-industrial world Bell describes, full of references to Weber, Rousseau, Locke, and Lenin.


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