Emile and Emily: or reason and sensibility on the conversations’agenda

Article Sidebar

PDF (Portuguese) PDF
Published: 2025-08-01
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14393/ER-v32e2025-20
Keywords:
Rousseau, Emile, Mme d’Épinay, Reason and Sensibility

Main Article Content

Wilson Alves de Paiva
Universidade Federal de Goiás - Brasil
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5654-7193

Abstract

The text seeks to analyze the interaction between reason and sensibility in the following works: the treatise on education Emile or on education, written by the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) in the form of a novel; and the work Les conversations d’Émilie, written by Louise d’Épinay (1726-1783). This one was written with the purpose of opposing the former, but it doesn't develop the theme with the same depth. The method for the analysis was hermeneutic, with a structural and comparative reading, reaching the conclusion that the two are similar in terms of reason and sensitivity, with due regard for specific differences. Emile will not be a savage at the end of his education, but a man of knowledge and reason; and Emilie will be educated with a view to developing reason, but safeguarding sensibility.

Article Details

Issue

Vol. 32 (2025): Publicação Contínua

Section

DEMANDA CONTÍNUA
Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The published works are the property of their authors, who may make use of them for subsequent publications, always including the original edition (original title, Ensino em Re-Vista, volume, number, pages). All articles in this journal are the sole responsibility of their authors, and no legal responsibility for their content rests with the Journal or EDUFU.

How to Cite

Paiva, W. A. de. (2025). Emile and Emily: or reason and sensibility on the conversations’agenda. Ensino Em Re-Vista, 32(Contínua), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.14393/ER-v32e2025-20

References

ARIÈS, Phillipe. História social da criança e da família. 2ª. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Guanabara, 1973.

AUSTEN, Jane. Razão e sensibilidade/Sense and Sensibility. Ed. bilingue Trad. Roberto Leal Ferreira. São Paulo: Martin Claret/Landmark, 2012.

BADINTER, Elisabeth. Émilie, Émilie: a ambição feminina no século XVIII. Trad. Celeste Marcondes. São Paulo: Discurso Editorial: Duna Dueto: Paz e Terra, 2003.

BALZAC, Honoré de. Ilusões perdidas.. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1981.

CAMBI, Franco. História da Pedagogia. São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 1999.

CARPEAUX, Otto Maria. História da literatura occidental. 7a. reimp. Brasília: Senado Federal, Conselho Editoial, 2019. 4 v.

COSTA, Maria do Socorro. A construção de uma antropologia pedagógica em Rousseau: do Segundo discurso ao Emílio. Tese de Doutorado. Salvador: UFBA, 2022.

DALBSCO, Cláudio Almir. Aspiração por reconhecimento e educação do amor-próprio em Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Educação e Pesquisa, São Paulo, v.37,n.3, p.481 - 496, set./dez. 2011.

D’EPINAY, Louise. Les conversations d’Émilie. 2 vol. Paris: Chez Humblot, 1781.

FRANCISCO, Maria de Fátima Simões. Análise do episódio do prestidigitador no Emílio de Rousseau. Cadernos De Ética E Filosofia Política, 2(21), 129-136, 2013. Recuperado de https://www.revistas.usp.br/cefp/article/view/56556.

GRÉARD, Octave. L’éducation des femmes par les femmes. Troisième édition, Paris: Hachette, 1889.

JOHNSON, Paul. Intellectuals. New York et al. Harper Perennial, 2007.

LENNE-CORNUEZ, Johanna. Être à sa place: La formation dusujet dans la philosophie morale de Rousseau. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021.

LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Antropologia estrutural. SP, Cosac Naify, 2008

LOCKE, John. Some thoughts concerning education. Mineola, New York: Dover, 2017.

NEUHOUSER, Frederic. Rousseau’s Theodicy of Self-Love: evil, rationality and the drive for recognition. Oxford, 2008.

PAIVA, Wilson Alves de. O Emílio de Rousseau e a formação do cidadão do mundo moderno. 2ª. ed. Belo Horizonte: Dialética, 2021.

PAIVA, Wilson Alves de. O jardim de Rousseau e a virtude do jardineiro. Cadernos de Ética e Filosofia Política, v. 1, n. 14, 2009. Disponível em: https://www.revistas.usp.br/cefp/article/view/83324, acessado em 20/06/2022.

ROLLIN, Charles. Traités des études. Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1863.

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Oeuvres complètes (5 volumes). Paris: Gallimard, 1959-1995.

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Emílio ou da educação. Trad. Sergio Millet. São Paulo: DIFEL, 1973.

ROTERDÃ, Erasmo de. A educação liberal. Campinas-SP: Kírion, 2020.

WHITEHEAD, Alfred N. Process and Reality – An Essay in Cosmology. New York: The Free Press, 1978.

WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. A vindication of the rights of woman. Mineola: New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1996.