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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This... Read Full Overview

The Confessions of Rousseau, perhaps the first modern autobiography, combines a retelling of the 53 years of his eventful with life, with astute psychological self-analysis. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was leading enlightenment thinker.

"The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" is a one-of-a-kind autobiography. Up until its publication in 1782, only two autobiographies had ever been written, and both were written by devout religious saints. Highly scandalous yet witty in nature, calling Rousseau's work an... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Jean-Jacques Rousseau puso en Las confesiones los cimientos de la moderna autobiograf a. Las confesiones van m s all de unas simples memorias al convertir Rousseau al lector en juez de los hechos de su vida. Expone su testimonio sobre los elementos biogr ficos de un hombre que... Read Full Overview

Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau est une autobiographie publi?e ? titre posthume.Le titre des Confessions a sans doute ?t? choisi en r?f?rence aux Confessions de Saint-Augustin, publi?es au IVe si?cle apr?s J?sus Christ. Rousseau, qui ?tait protestant, accomplit ainsi... Read Full Overview

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political... Read Full Overview