Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius

Damrosch, Leopold Jr.

ISBN 10: 0618872027 / ISBN 13: 9780618872022

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618872027
• ISBN 13: 9780618872022
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Letters

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Synopsis

The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of significance by age thirty, Rousseau seemed an unlikely candidate to become one of the most influential thinkers in history. Yet the power of his ideas is felt to this day in our political and social lives.

In a masterly and definitive biography, Leo Damrosch traces the extraordinary life of Rousseau with novelistic verve. He presents Rousseau's books -- The Social Contract, one of the greatest works on political theory; Emile, a groundbreaking treatise on education; and the Confessions, which created the genre of introspective autobiography -- as works uncannily alive and provocative even today. Jean-Jacques Rousseau offers a vivid portrait of the visionary’s tumultuous life.

About the Author

LEO DAMROSCH was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, among other honors. Currently the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of literature at Harvard University, he has written widely on eighteenth-century writers. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.