The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Subjects: Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography, PQ, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, I
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Subjects: Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography, PQ, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, I
Downloads: 478
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 nat.
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