European History and Early Modern Globalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Max Nelson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 347-355 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbx015 |
| OpenAlex | W2591785981 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Feeling ostracized from society and persecuted for his beliefs, the great and troubled philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau took many long walks through the Swiss countryside where he lived later in life. On a hike in 1765, he searched for solace in the remote mountains and valleys west of Lake Neuchâtel. Passing through dense black pines and fallen beech trees, he entered an isolated area that felt like another world. Rousseau bounded over boulders, lay down on his stomach to peer over precipices, and watched hawks and osprey fly above. He observed the plants around him and collected specimens of toothwort, club moss, laserwort and sowbread. Sitting down in a clearing, his mind wandered as he lost himself in his surroundings. As he recounted in Reveries of a Solitary Walker, it was just at this moment – immediately after deciding that he was like a new Columbus discovering an unknown land – that he heard a familiar clanking. The sound repeated and became louder. Investigating, he pushed through a thicket of brush to find that a mere twenty feet from where he had been sitting in wild contemplation was a stocking mill.
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Contemplation · Geography · Theology · Thicket · Ecology · European Political History Analysis · History · Philosophy · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |