Rousseau's romanticism runs through all fields of his thoughts and theories, which makes him surpass the Enlightenment and become the "father of the Romantic Movement" because he initiated the Romantic Movement.

Russell said Rousseau was the father of romanticism. Why do you say that?

First, the liberation of individual freedom. This is one of the most important features of romanticism. Rousseau devoted his life to this. From his first paper "On Science and Art", he sounded the horn of liberating humanity and freedom. "Science, literature and art are more powerful because they are not so autocratic, so they decorate the corolla on the shackles that bind people, and they stifle people's natural free sentiment." The science, literature and art that he accused of having a bad social atmosphere were actually under the floating rationality of his time. Next, he more directly condemned the dehumanizing social fashion. "Everyone's spirit seems to be cast in the same mold. Etiquette is constantly forcing us, and the atmosphere is constantly ordering us; We constantly follow these customs, but we can never follow our own nature. " (1) At the beginning of The Theory of Social Contract, it was mentioned that the liberation of human nature was imminent. "People are born free, but they are everywhere in chains. He who thinks he is the master of everything else is a slave more than anything else. " This sentence later became a famous saying in the ideological and political circles, anthropology and literature. In Confessions, Rousseau's trial of Jean Jacques, the daydream of a lonely rambler and other works that analyze one's mind, the cry for the freedom and liberation of personality is even more intuitive.

Secondly, subjective spirit and almost exaggerated emotional description. This is another core feature of romanticism. Most romantics pay special attention to the world of personal subjective imagination. They are especially good at creating an idealized and typical environment for the protagonist. The strong subjective imagination in Rousseau's thoughts is very obvious in his two novels Emile, which advocate naturalistic education, and Love Lois, a romantic novel. Emily's own structure-the five stages of education is an idealized model. We can't completely separate moral education, intellectual education, physical education, aesthetic education and emotional education. Then, it is Rousseau's educational environment for Emile's idealism. The plot in the novel develops in an orderly way according to his subjective will. Of course, this subjective spirit is most suitable for expressing strong feelings, especially passionate love. This is especially reflected in his romantic novel The New Love Lois. Among them, there is a lot of space to eulogize the charming love between Julie and St. Pule. "When I touch your hand, I always tremble and I am ecstatic. I can't see or feel anything else. " "Love, you are the life of the soul. Come and maintain the collapsed life of my line. " .

Then, as for feelings, the most classic is his description of his sudden inspiration on the way from Paris to Vinson and his complicated feelings with Mrs Warren in Confessions. First of all, let's see how irving babbitt empathized with the inspiration of A Passage to Vinson from Rousseau's primitive religious view. He told us that the barrier collapsed before his eyes, just as Paul suddenly collapsed on the way to Damascus, and he saw how people fell from the happy times of primitive times (4) the complicated relationship with Mrs. Warren. For him, she is not only his mother, but also his lover who is eager to possess; She is not only a pure, kind and gentle woman, but also an imaginary object who is never present when masturbating. This reminds me of Freud's psychology and structuralism, post-structuralism and even more post-modern schools' unusual love for Rousseau to masturbate by imagining Mrs. Warren. I don't know why they often hold this seemingly chicken rib to explain their views. But I think it may be related to Rousseau's disclosure of his feelings and imagination. They all found inspiration from the emotional and frank Rousseau.