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The Noble Savage , the second volume of Maurice Cranston's unparalleled biography of Rousseau's life and works, continues the exposition of Rousseau's life launched in Jean-Jacques .Rejecting the psychological and sociological approaches which have long dominated Rousseau studies, Cranston draws from original manuscript sources, determined, he insists, "to break the chain of books based on books."Cranston completes and corrects the story told in Rousseau's Confessions , and offers a vivid, entirely new history of his most eventful and productive years. He describes how Rousseau's renunciation of fortunes was followed by prodigious literary fame; how the writing of La Nouvelle Héloïse mirrored his most tumultuous love affaire; how quarrels and intrigues ended his friendships with Voltaire, Diderot, and other philosophers of the Enlightenment, while intimacy with the nobility sharpened his distaste for bourgeois conventionality.Cranston also describes the stormy impact of Rousseau's writings, showing how his unorthodox defense of religion in Émile unhappily provoked the hostility of believers and unbelievers alike; and how his support for the republican constitution of Geneva was rewarded with a warrant for his arrest.The philosopher of Nature is shown to have become increasingly uneasy in the rustic retreat at Montmorency, where he claimed to have found serenity after his departure from Paris. Affectionate, yet selfish, rude, and brutally honest, Rousseau was able to alternately charm and alienate the people he met. With his passionate, subversive writings, he propelled the world from rationalism and hedonism toward romanticism and revolution."Luckily for us, Maurice Cranston's The Noble Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-1762 has managed to craft a highly detailed account of eight key years of Rousseau's life in such a way that we can both understand and even, on occasion, sympathize."— Olivier Bernier, Wall Street Journal
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Penguin 1991 Penguin 1991 xi 399 plates paperback, cover creased, spine very slightly faded with a light reading crease, page edges slightly discoloured otherwise a very good clean tight copy Very Good. Seller Inventory # 46609
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