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Rousseauan, a. (n.)|ruːˈsəʊən|
[f. the name of the French author Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–78).]
Pertaining to Rousseau or his views on religion, politics, education, etc. Also as n. So Rousseauˈesque a.1, Rouˈsseauian, Rouˈsseauish adjs.; similarly Rousseauˈistic, Rouˈsseauvian adjs.; Rouˈsseauism, the principles or doctrines of Rousseau; Rousseauˈarian, Rouˈsseauist (also as adj.), Rouˈsseauite, one who follows Rousseau.
1775H. Walpole Let. 3 Apr. (1904) IX. 174 The Rousseaurians [sic] will imagine that I interpolated the condemnation of his Eloïse. 1806J. Mackintosh Let. 24 Dec. in R. J. Mackintosh Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) I. vi. 306 It is certainly a most ingenious, and the only reasonable, modification of the Lockian and Rousseauvian principle. 1865Pall Mall G. 12 Dec. 10 It is mere Rousseauism which induces men..to overlook the former while they reprobate the latter. 1873Morley Rousseau II. 132 Writing Rousseau-ite essays. 1879Dowden Southey 53 A creature overflowing with Rousseauish sensibility. 1881World 28 Dec., His confessions..are not at all Rousseauian, save, perhaps, in style. 1889Q. Rev. Apr. 545 This Rousseauan fiction of man's essential goodness. 1889Cent. Dict., Rousseauist.., a follower or an admirer of J. J. Rousseau. 1905H. G. Wells Mod. Utopia v. 171 The sweetish, faintly nasty slops of Rousseauism. 1914Blast 20 June 18 Blast..Rousseauisms (wild Nature cranks). 1928C. Hollis Dr. Johnson iii. 67 The Rousseauan argument was that man was good. Ibid. 68 Rousseauans had been responsible for the generalisation that man was good. 1930H. Read Wordsworth iii. 131 They had taken a ward to educate..but they did not take their duties any more seriously than a pair of Rousseauites should. 1935D. Fahey Mystical Body of Christ in Mod. World iv. 30 The Rousseauist dogma of the natural goodness of man. a1937J. L. Stocks Reason & Intuition (1939) vi. 84 In modern times the Rousseauistic strain still survives. 1937‘C. Caudwell’ Illusion & Reality v. 98 Wordsworth, like Shelley profoundly influenced by French Rousseauism. 1938R. Graves Coll. Poems 96 And being no Rousseauist, Nor artists-of-the-world-unite. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xviii. 339 This Rousseauesque theory of the linguistic origin of music, basically wrong as it is, still reappears even in professional psychological literature of the 19th century. 1962Gregor & Nicholas Moral & Story v. 144 This somewhat Rousseauistic view of nature contrasts strangely with the determinist one, which Hardy runs alongside it. 1962C. Walsh From Utopia to Nightmare ix. 126 Americans are Rousseauans by temperament. 1965M. Hodgart Faber Bk. Ballads 12 We are all Rousseauists or Wordsworthians to the degree that we are discontented with the artificiality of our culture. 1967B. W. Alderson tr. Hürlimann's Three Cent. Children's Bks. in Europe ix. 120 The Romanticism and Rousseau-ish idealism in books about America and the Indians. 1969J. Mander Static Society 170 The ‘good’ Indian myth of Rousseauvian Europe. 1971Rousseauian [see neo-primitivism s.v. neo- 1 a]. 1971G. Steiner Bluebeard's Castle i. 24 What needs close attention is the extent to which critiques of urban society tend to become indictments of all formal, complex civilization as such (‘civilization’, of course, has in it the word for city). Rousseauist naturalism has an obvious destructive edge. 1974Listener 21 Mar. 372/3 The editor of his [sc. Aaron Burr's] journal calls it ‘Rousseauistic’... Couldn't one just call it unselfconscious? 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 148/2 The Machiavellian and Rousseauesque hints of subordination of church to state. 1977in Private Eye 10 June 5/2 In the name of directness, of authenticity, of courage, of any number of Rousseauian virtues that belong exclusively to the noble savage. 1977Listener 16 June 790/3 Throngs of Indonesians who..appear to conform to the most elevated models of Rousseauvian noblesse. 1978Dædalus Summer 2 The Rousseauan longing for a pastoral idyll is not yet dead. |