Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Release : 2013-05-14
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Download or read book The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This book was released on 2013-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his doctrine of natural goodness, Rousseau intended the Confessions as a testing ground to explore his belief that, as Christopher Kelly writes, "people are to be measured by the depth and nature of their feelings." Re-created here in a meticulously documented new translation based on the definitive Pléiade edition, the work represents Rousseau's attempt to forge connections among his beliefs, his feelings, and his life. More than a "behind-the-scenes look at the private life of a public man," Kelly writes, "the Confessions is at the center of Rousseau's philosophical enterprise."