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Explain the major ideas of Enlightenment. Discuss the contribution of Rousseau in Enlightenment.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Enlightenment and Modern Ideas

The Enlightenment was an intellectual, philosophical, cultural and social movement that swept Western Europe through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, earning the era the name the Age of Reason.

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  • The Major Ideas of the Enlightenment
  • Rousseau's Formation and Early Contribution
  • The Social Contract and the Idea of Popular Sovereignty
  • Rousseau as a Counter-Enlightenment Current

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