Major Works
- Dissertation sur la musique moderne, 1736
- Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (Discours sur les sciences et les arts), 1750
- Narcissus, or The Self-Admirer: A Comedy, 1752
- Le Devin du Village: an opera, 1752, score PDF (21.7 MB)
- Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes), 1754
- Discourse on Political Economy, 1755
- Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles, 1758 (Lettre à d'Alembert sur les spectacles)
- Julie, or the New Heloise (Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse), 1761
- Émile: or, on Education (Émile ou de l'éducation), 1762
- The Creed of a Savoyard Priest, 1762 (in Émile)
- The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right (Du contrat social), 1762
- Four Letters to M. de Malesherbes, 1762
- Pygmalion: a Lyric Scene, 1762
- Letters Written from the Mountain, 1764 (Lettres de la montagne)
- Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
- Constitutional Project for Corsica, 1772
- Considerations on the Government of Poland, 1772
- Essay on the Origin of Languages, published 1781 (Essai sur l'origine des langues)
- Reveries of a Solitary Walker, incomplete, published 1782 (Rêveries du promeneur solitaire)
- Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques, published 1782
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