Research Guides: IDS 101: Rousseau’s Controversial Legacy: Films, Websites, & Rare Books

The "Savage Man" Leaves

Illustration to 'Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes', in 'Oeuvres choisies de Jean Jacques Rousseau'

Power over People: Classic and Modern Political Theory
Call Number: HAT AV Video JA71 .P69 1991 v.2
A series of eight lectures by Dr. Dennis Dalton on political theory. Lecture 4: Rousseau and the Civil state in The Second Discourse.
Le Gai Savoir = Joy of Learning (1969)
Call Number: HAT AV Video PN1995.91.F7 G15 1990
Emile and Patricia stumble across each other in an abandoned TV studio. They meet for 7 nights to carry out a 3-year plan to create a new cinema.. Based loosely on Jean Jacques Rousseau's incendiary treatise, "Emile, or on education", Godard's "Le gai savoir" is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas - and how filmmaking is a path." French with English subtitles.

Le Devin du Village by Rousseau
1962 video from La Suisse romande of the one-act French operetta with libretto & music by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Le Devin du village, intermède représenté à Fontainebleau
Score of Rousseau's Interlude from Gallica.
Le Devin du village, intermède représenté à Fontainebleau devant leurs Majestés les 18 et 24 octobre 1752 et à Paris par l'Académie royale de musique le 1er mars 175
Rousseau Search in Gallica, National Library of France
Developed by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica is a platform providing access to public domain and copyrighted digital material. This link shows the results of search for Jean Jacques Rousseau in Gallica, and it includes books, images, music, scores and more.
The Romantics Excerpt
An excerpt from the BBC series on Romanticism from 2006.
Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres
The Encyclopédie was published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772...
Jean Jacques Rousseau
An article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778)
An article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Free Scores by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
From the International Music Score Library Project.
Bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art about the bust of Rousseau by Jean Antoine Houdon.

Illustration to 'Le Devin de village', in 'Oeuvres choisies de Jean Jacques Rousseau' (London c1783)

Illustration to 'Emile', in 'Oeuvres choisies de Jean Jacques Rousseau' (London c1783)