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The Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
出版
Wordsworth Editions
, 1996
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Political
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Literary Criticism / European / French
Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Political Science / History & Theory
ISBN
1853264652
9781853264658
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JpeFvnPUEuIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This translation first appeared in a privately printed edition in 1904 (the translator remains anonymous). With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. 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. AUTHOR: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was, arguably, the most original, profound, and creative writer of the eighteenth century, but also the most controversial, and his work continues to divide opinion to this day. His '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 relationship between the individual and the state.