Date:
November 19, 2012
Time:
1:50-3:15pm
Location:
D'Angelo 206
Please join us on Monday, November 19th from 1:50-3:15 pm
(Common Hour) in D’Angelo 206 as five distinguished scholars
from St. John’s College celebrate the 300th anniversary of
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s birth.
Symposium Participants
Introduction: Dr. Michael Wolfe, Professor of History
Rousseau and Women Writers: Dr. Zoe Petropoulou, Associate
Professor of French
How Rousseau Invented America: New World Science: Dr. Robert
Fanuzzi, Associate Professor of English
Rousseau and the Religion of Self-Love: Dr. Michael Henry,
Professor of Philosophy
Rousseau's Legacy to Child Psychology: Dr. John Hogan, Professor of
Psychology
Discussant: Dr. Michael Wolfe
Fifth Annual Dean’s
Interdisciplinary Symposium
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Restless Genius and Revolutionary
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) remains a highly
controversial
figure who made singular contributions in his day to a broad
range
of fields. These included political theory and philosophy,
ethics,
sociology, psychology, the education of children, aesthetics,
literature, and music. Rousseau was a fiercely independent
and
protean writer whose radical views and tumultuous life
constantly
challenged conventional thinking during the Age of
Enlightenment,
opening the way for new ideas and practices that helped shape
the
French Revolution and the advent of the modern era.