The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Couverture souple

Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Translated By J.M. Cohen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9993183725 ISBN 13 : 9789993183723

Editeur : Penguin, 1953

Synopsis

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Penguin Classics no.L 33)

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological, and educational thought. Rousseau's novel Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings — his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker — exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing. His Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and his On the Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. He argued that private property was conventional and the beginning of true civil society.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Among the notable books of later times—we may say, without exaggeration, of all time—must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself—a struggle to which, after many fierce intestine quarrels and sanguinary wars throughout Europe and America, has succeeded the prevalence of those more tolerant and rational principles by which the statesmen of our own day are actuated.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1953
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9993183725
• ISBN 13: 9789993183723
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
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