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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

By Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau Contemporary literature

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

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In his Confessions Jean-Jacques 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 autobiography: defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment. Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource of language, to convey what he despairs of putting into words: the personal quality of one's own existence.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
712
Release Date:
2021-01-01
Publication Date:
2021-01-01
Publisher:
Insight Publica
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9391006523
ISBN13:
9789391006525
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
988 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
41 cm
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