The Confessions (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) - Softcover

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853264652 ISBN 13: 9781853264658

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was, arguably, the most original, profound, and creative writer of the eighteenth century, but also the most controversial, and his work continues to divide opinion to this day. His '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 relationship between the individual and the state.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853264652
• ISBN 13: 9781853264658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672