Essays about: "Jean Jacques Rousseau"

Found 5 essays containing the words Jean Jacques Rousseau.

  1. 1. Rousseau’s Negative Education and the Unconscious Alienation of Emile

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)

    Author : Georgia Laskari; [2023]
    Keywords : negative education; alienation; upbringing; Rousseau; Emile; intentions;

    Abstract : Dangerous things can happen in the name of good intentions and we, as teachers or parents, are unaware of the ways we hurt children. In the book Emile or on Education we see a fictional example of a pedagogical relationship between a teacher and a student, where the teacher -Jean Jacques- is eager to teach and raise his pupil, Emile, in certain ways, so as to make him independent and happy. READ MORE

  3. 2. “You can be whatever you want in this world, but not un-vaccinated.” – Understanding Covid-19 anti-vaccinators in Modern Democracy

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Lovisa Seller; [2022-11-08]
    Keywords : Covid-19; Sweden; activism; freedom; representation; demonstration; control; togetherness; truth; vaccination.;

    Abstract : Sweden’s approach for covid-19 has been considered mild compared to other countries’, but despite the Public Health Authority’s, the government’s, and the politician’s relatively relaxed l approach towards the pandemic, there have been a lot of questions raised regarding the work and management of this crisis both from those that asked for a firmer handling and from those who criticised the regulations all together. There are citizens in Sweden who have had a growing resentment towards the vaccination and the vaccination card, which has come to result in people connecting and establishing movements against the covid-19 vaccination through protests and demonstrations. READ MORE

  4. 3. What Every Man Delights In?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Unn Segrén; [2016]
    Keywords : Emma; Jane Austen; Fordyce; Gregory; Rousseau; 18th-century conduct-manuals; Regency ideal; Ideal woman; Feminism; Feminist; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Jane Austen’s novel Emma (1815) is set in the quiet English countryside and focuses on the young woman Emma Woodhouse, the daughter of an elderly country gentleman. For 200 years this book has been widely read, and its protagonist has evoked strong feelings. Most readers either love, or hate her, but she is rarely met with indifference. READ MORE

  5. 4. Substituting Genesis : Replacing Religion with Philosophy in His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Nina Sundström; [2011]
    Keywords : Empiricism; Philosophy in literature; Religion in literature; Philip Pullman; His Dark Materials; Jean Jacques Rousseau; Religious Criticism; Languages and Literatures;

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  6. 5. Women of Substance : The Aspect of Education, Career and Female Identity in Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Johanna Lindgren; [2009]
    Keywords : Feminism; female identity; education; career; Pride and Prejudice; Bridget Jones s Diary; Jane Austen; Helen Fielding; Simone de Beauvoir; Mary Wollstonecraft; Maria Nilsson; chick lit; Jean-Jacques Rousseau;

    Abstract : Although two hundred years separate Jane Austen and Helen Fielding and, subsequently, also their portrayals of society, the similarities outweigh the differences. When juxtaposing Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary in the light of feminism it is evident that both books provide clear examples of the prevailing situation of women in each time and place. READ MORE