Confessions, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Whewell, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440064083 ISBN 13 : 9781440064081

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover a candid window into a famed thinker’s early life, passions, and moral choices.
This memoir excerpt charts the formative years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, revealing his studies, curiosities, and the people who shaped him. It traces his struggle to balance study with daily duties, his growing love of music and botany, and the friendships and intrigues that colored his world in 18th‑century Europe.

The narrative invites readers to watch a young man navigate family ties, personal conscience, and the push and pull of ambition. It also highlights moments of danger, loyalty, and self‑reflection that foreshadow the author’s lifelong quest to understand himself and his society.

• Rousseau’s evolving interests in arithmetic, drawing, botany, and music, and how they steer his path.


• Relationships and friendships that test loyalty and shape his outlook on life and ethics.


• Private letters, confidences, and social circles that reveal the complexity of Enlightenment-era society.


• Recurring themes of self‑examination, education, and the formation of character.

Ideal for readers of memoirs and writers interested in the roots of a famous philosophy.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Confessions is the first great document of its kind in the modern world; it is the first great romantic autobiography. It may seem strange to us nowadays, when we are surfeited with confessions -when fiction has come more and more to take the form of rambling autobiography and when everyone, of however humble eminence, writes at some time or other the story of his life -that such a narrative as Rousseau sshould ever have been a novelty. Yet it is a fact that the peculiar romantic interest in personality which has drenched literature ever since, had its first important expression in Rousseau. Hitherto before the latter half of the eighteenth century the most violent emotions of men had tended to crystallize in objective works of art, as the passionate storms of Swift were compressed into pamphlets and satires and the sensibility of Racine was chiseled in the marble of classical tragedies. But at the advent of Rousseau, with his new motto, I ntus et in cute, the simple record of ones feelings and impressions became an end and a form in itself; you assumed that a thing was interesting, not by virtue of its absolute importance, but because it had happened to you, and you assumed that the things that happened inside you were more important than the things you actually did.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440064083
• ISBN 13: 9781440064081
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 453
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