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“Lost”! What did he mean? Rousseau competed for the Dijon prize with the First Discourse, on the sciences and the arts, which he wrote in the autumn of the same year 1749. Its controversial thesis and powerful rhetoric won him the prize. Published in 1750 it caught “like wildfire” in the cultural world of Paris, and he was an immediate celebrity.
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Wain, K. (2011). On State Education. In: Wain, K. (eds) On Rousseau. Key Critical Thinkers in Education, vol 3. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-385-3_1
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