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Books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentioned on podcasts

8 books across 12 episodes on 6 podcasts.

Emile is Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s most mentioned book on podcasts, brought up in 3 episodes across 2 podcasts (0 episodes with a recommendation). In all, 8 books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau have come up in 12 episodes on 6 podcasts, led by Emile (3 episodes), Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (2 episodes) and The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (2 episodes), through .

Questions about books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's most mentioned book on podcasts?

Emile is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's most mentioned book on podcasts, discussed in 3 episodes across 2 podcasts without an explicit recommendation, as of July 19, 2025.

How many of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's books come up on podcasts?

8 books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau come up on podcasts: 8 books across 12 episodes on 6 podcasts, as of July 19, 2025.

Which podcasts mention Jean-Jacques Rousseau most?

Conversations with Tyler (2 episodes), EconTalk (2 episodes), Behind the Bastards (1 episode), Lex Fridman Podcast (1 episode) and The Tim Ferriss Show (1 episode), among 6 podcasts in all.

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  1. Emile

    3 episodes · EconTalk, Conversations with Tyler

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile is an influential eighteenth-century treatise exploring the philosophy of education and human development.

    Discussed
    “Look, his he he's concentrates on this in his educational writing in a meal on how to cure people from an improper sense of amo and and it is his treatment of this subject is perhaps one of his greatest contributions to to psychology and to social psychology.”
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  2. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

    2 episodes · Behind the Bastards, EconTalk

    Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a foundational 18th-century philosophical text exploring the transition of human beings from a hypothetical state of nature into civil society, arguing that private property created inequality and social vices.

    Discussed
    “A couple years later, a couple decades later, Rouso was writing in the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men.”
    Where to get it
  3. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

    2 episodes · EconTalk, The Tim Ferriss Show

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau's foundational autobiography details the philosopher's life, thoughts, and personal development with unprecedented candor.

    Discussed
    “A prolific political philosopher known for the social contract. A philosopher of education, famous for his a meal, author of a romantic novel, composer of seven operas, a theater critic, an author of the first modern autobiography, The Confessions, and even a scientist writing an elements of botany.”
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  4. Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality among Men

    1 episode · Behind the Bastards

    Discussed
    “A couple years later, a couple decades later, Rouso was writing in the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men.”
    Where to get it
  5. Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men

    1 episode · EconTalk

    Discussed
    “So, what we're going to do today, uh, Leon's going to give a brief summary of Rouso's life and career, and we're going to do a close reading of a few paragraphs from his discourse on the origins and foundations of inequality among men, which is also known as the second discourse.”
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  6. Discourse on the origins of inequality (second discourse) ; Polemics ; and, Political economy

    1 episode · Conversations with Tyler

    Discussed
    “so if you look at the second discourse on inequality it's highly libertarian deriving from basically Cartesian principles about the uniqueness of and creativity of human thought and language onto a fairly libertarian conception of social organization”
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  7. Gateway to the Social Contract

    1 episode · This Week in Startups

    Discussed
    “and we've lost that and it's it's something that we yeah i mean this is hobbs right obviously a philosophy guy and you know life in his state of nature is nasty shortish and brutal right yeah british and short i mean and you know you have a social contract”
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  8. The Social Contract

    1 episode · Lex Fridman Podcast

    Discussed
    “when i say i'm just talking about the social contract yeah but the social contract there's similarity between others”
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