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Loading... Les confessions, Tome 1by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Belongs to SeriesLes Confessions (tome 1) Belongs to Publisher SeriesEveryman's Library (859) Gallimard, Folio (376) Is contained inVoltaire: Candide ; Rousseau: Bekendelser by A. Blinkenberg (indirect) Has as a student's study guide
When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state. No library descriptions found. |
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I managed to plough through 15 hours of badly narrated story of a book that is interesting from a point of view of a badly behaving Philosopher.
The tone of the book seems awfully self centred and self referential. Rousseau was a very highly educated autodidact who was taken on by those he was serving in one of the houses as he traversed nomadically through his life. One must take hat off to him for making it against incredible odds but there the admiration ends. Rousseau seems self concerned self regarding in a way that is quite offputting. Of course one has to survive but like this? Shame cos otherwise Rousseau as a Philosopher had some interesting things to say. (