The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

Parts I and II, 311pp, 321pp.3/4 full purple calf leather. Marbled boards,endpapers. gilt ruling, TEG, Five raised bands, gilt decorated spine.Front inner hinge reinforced, scuffing to the extremities. "Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. The book vividly illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the writing of defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment." Size: Thick Octavo.