Example sentences for: rousseau

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

  • 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.

  • It has its origin, as much as anywhere, in 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.

  • Greider brings "the global economic beast to life in all its splendor and horror" (Matthew Miller, in the New York Times ). The passion of his polemic recalls Rousseau and Martin Luther (Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs ). But few are persuaded by Greider's conclusions.


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