The Confessions, Jean Jacques Rouseau, engels

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Beschrijving

Het bekende boek van Jean Jacques Rousseau, in de engelse taal met een introductie van Derek Matravers.

Wordsworth Classics of worldliteratuur.

645 blz. gelezen maar nog netjes. paperback.
deze druk is uit 1996.
9781853264658

When it was first published in 1781, The Confessionsscandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatmentof the autor?s sexual and intellectual development.

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Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood, through the development of his philosophical and political ideas, his struggle against the French authorities and exile from France following the publication of Emile . Depicting a life of adventure, persecution, paranoia, and brilliant achievement, The Confessions is a landmark work by one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment, which was a direct influence upon the work of Proust, Goethe and Tolstoy among others.