title: Emile: Or On Education
author:  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
description: <div><B>Allan Bloom,</B> formerly a professor of political theory at the University of Toronto, has recently become a professor of The Committee on Social Thought and in The College, University of Chicago.</div>
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  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  EMILE
  or On Education
  Introduction, Translation,
  and Notes
  B Y
  ALLAN BLOO
  BASICB
  BOOKS
  A Member of The Perseus Books Group
  
  TO THE MEMORY OF
  VICTOR BARAS
  MY STUDENT AND FRIEND
  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
  Emile:
  or On education.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  I.
  Education— Early works to 1800.
  I.
  Title.
  LB512.E5
  1979
  370
  78-73765
  ISBN: 0-465-01930-7 cloth
  ISBN: 0-465-01931-5 pbk.
  Foreword, Introduction, English translation, and Notes
  copyright O 1979 by Basic Books,
  Printed in the United States of America
  DESIGNED BY VINCENT TORRE
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  02 03 04 05 HC 30 29 28 27 26 25
  
  Contents
  Foreword
  Introduction
  Note
  EMlhE or On Education
  PREFACE
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive
  in 2010
  http://www.archive.org/details/emileoroneducatiOOrous
  
  Foreword
  w
  T
  The
  HEN
  I WROTE
  the
  preface
  to my
  translation
  of
  the
  Republic,
  I