/lit/ - Literature

Rousseau writes about it in his Confessions, if I remember right he gets kicked out after commenting on the disproportions of prostitiute's breasts. And another time he chickens out himself

I believe the contrary of basically everything he believed, yet I'm obsessed with this man.

How fascist is this guy?

Have you read him? What do you think of him?

I'll start

>>19079744
No.

It's curious how postmodernism has singlehandedly destroyed the notion of common good within fifty years. A concept that was older than the Greeks, that was heavily promoted by the Church, that Rousseau saved from the middle ages, absolutely demolished after the 2WW. Popper and the rise of identity politics killed it. Now everything is a fight between egoistical parties. Do you realize what does this mean? It's the rupture of society. The Republic, the res- public (the public thing) is dissolved, there's nothing public anymore, nothing to strive for as a collective of united wills. Let's make a minute of silence in remembrance of it.

ITT: philosophers who were wrong about literally everything

>Abandons his kids
>Writes a treatise on child-rearing and education

Imagine burning in hell for eternity in every religion and damning the world til the end of time because you wanted to rationalize your uncontrollable urge to suck cock.

Say something good about him

>>17679930
That's right my anon. Fill up Belgium with the blackest joggers of all Africa. The most regressive tribal apes imported by thousands of thousands. Make them go over all Europe. Let's make the entire continent go back to the stone age rather than financing a single tranny surgery trough taxes.

Is his philosophy as retarded as it seems or am I missing something?
I've been reading his stuff on and off since my high school days, and used to be pretty familiar with Du contrat social and Discourse sur l'inegalité in particular.
Recently I thought about him again and I'm baffled by how nonsensical his whole thought system is. Whether it's his idea of the state of nature or his theories on education, it all reads like he just pulled it out of his ass.

Am I missing some kind of essential historical context, or is this yet another case of a Gigachad coming up with random shit and basedboys eating it up?

It’s all his fault

>>17338718
pic related

de Maistrefags aren't going to like this one.
>winner of prestigious essay competition which relied heavily on rhetorical ability and skill in composition
>independently revolutionized the novel with the release of Julie, which was so popular printing presses couldn't match demand
>practically invents the modern autobiography with his Confessions
>his skill was so great that even independently successful writers such as Hume thought themselves no match
>loved and praised for his prose by a long list of literary figures ranging from Goethe to Tolstoy to Keats

lil nigga said FUCK a book, FUCK civilization, FUCK science

No, not at all. I've no idea what you're talking about desu.

>>17163078
no.

>>17080263
Will you take paintings?

The only form of degeneracy is pride.

Is the concept of Volonte Generale just a euphemism for a mass mob, not a mass of individuals, but a sentient mob?

>>16740608
>>Saying "man is born free and everywhere he is in chains" is like saying sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere they nibble grass.
>Yes (but without the shit analogy)
https://youtu.be/TtUz514rXKo

>if you learned how to read before the age of 13 you are a victim of child abuse
What's his problem?