Emile: Or On Education

The once banned and burned treatise on the nature of education from the eighteenth-century philosopher and author of The Social Contract.

Considered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself to be the "best and most important" of all his writings, Émile set off a firestorm when it was first published in 1762. It was banned in Paris and burned in Geneva, but later served as the inspiration for a new national system of education during the French Revolution.

In its pages, Émile and his tutor emba...