The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
By: by Jean Jacques Rousseau ; translated by S.W. Orson
Contributors: Orson, S. W., translator
Publisher: Cavalier Classics
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781507829134
Subjects: French Authors; Biography
Work titles: Confessions
Description: "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"--Amazon.