Confessions (Everyman's Library Classics)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

ISBN 10: 1857150848 / ISBN 13: 9781857150841

Published by Everyman, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Confessions (Everyman's Library Classics)
• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857150848
• ISBN 13: 9781857150841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest recesses of the author's mind while narrating the farcical comedy of errors which was his life. P.N. Furbank is the author of "E.M. Forster: A Life".

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Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attention to his startlingly alive autobiography. But the Confessions is also among the greatest self-portraits in world literature -which suggests, even more than the impact of Rousseau's thought, the extent to which the very high opinion he had of himself was ultimately justified.