Main Accomplishments
- The social contract- an entire society agrees to be governed by the general will
- Reforms taste in music. His music attracted so much admiration from the king and the court that he might have enjoyed an easy life as a composer, but something in him rejected this idea.
- Influenced German and English romanticism. So, indirectly, on romanticism in general.
- Few people have equaled Rousseau's influence in politics, literature, and education.