Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) presents concepts that had a significant influence on the development of pedagogy in the eighteenth century, and yet many of his ideas still sound radical today. Written in reaction to the stultifying system of rote learning and memorization prevalent throughout Europe at the time, Emile is a utopian vision of child-centered education, full of the sentiments of Romanticism, a movement that Rousseau inspired.
Imagining a typical boy named Emile, Rousseau creates an ideal model of one-on-one tutelage from infancy to manhood with himself as the child's mentor. As in so many of his other famous works, here, too, Rousseau asserts his main thesis that human beings are by nature good; it is only the distorting influences of civilization that have corrupted them.
Combining a provocative thought-experiment with a deeply original sci-fi narrative, this book is both visionary in its search for new possibilities and realistic in its embrace of the complexities of our human nature
—— Alfonso Cuarón, Oscar-winning Director of Roma and GravityA landmark work ... A vision of a new society with new ways of thinking is possibly the most important thing an artist can offer at the moment
—— Brian EnoI am enjoying Yanis Varoufakis's Another Now. The way we live is not inevitable
—— Jeanette WintersonI could not recommend this more. If you're looking for a sense of optimism, a sense of political possibility, this book is very important
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—— The MonthlyAnother Now is structurally, ideologically and linguistically an extraordinary work
—— Zoe WilliamsI've absolutely loved reading [Another Now] ... the second I started reading it, it surprised and intrigued me
—— Matthew Taylor, RSAAnother Now is not only a marvellously good read - it is a notable addition to the literature of social change
—— The WireThe reason Varoufakis seems to have captured the imaginations of so many is that his words about the European crisis speak universal truths about democracy, capitalism and social policy
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—— Wall Street JournalSen's gentle memoir shed[s] light on the distant nooks of a long life of distinction. ... There is something of Tagore in the judicious Mr. Sen. He is an un?inching man of science but also insistently humane.
—— Tunku Varadarajan , Wall Street Journalwarmhearted, clear-eyed account of the formative years of his life, a book that reaches from Myanmar to Berkeley ... a testament to just how far, in one life, one man might go into that vast world ... Sen's writing style is even-keeled and gently humorous.
—— Mythili G. Rao , Washington PostPRAISE FOR AMARTYA SEN
With his masterly prose, ease of erudition and ironic humour, Sen is one of the few great world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion
—— Nadine GordimerAmartya Sen is one of the most distinguished minds of our time [who] enjoyably mixes moments of profundity with flashes of mischievous provocation
—— William Dalrymple , New York Review of BooksThe world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or insightful a champion
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—— Nicholas SternA distinguished inheritor of the tradition of public philosophy and reasoning - Roy, Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru ... if ever there was a global intellectual, it is Sen
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