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  The Confessions (Classics of World Literature) (Paperback) By (author) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Introduction by Derek Matravers, Series edited by Tom Griffith

  

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  Short Description for The ConfessionsThis work is a frank treatment of Rousseau's sexual and intellectual development. It offers a model for the reflective life: the solitary, uncompromising individual; the enemy of servitude and habit; and the selfish egoist who dedicates himself to a particular ideal.
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  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
  • Published: 06 May 1996
  • Format: Paperback 672 pages
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  • Categories: Autobiography: General | Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Contemporary Fiction | Graphic Novels, Anime & Manga | History Of Western Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9781853264658 ISBN 10: 1853264652
  • Sales rank: 78,793

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• 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.