Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 758/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Confessions by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Download or read book Confessions written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state.