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Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

出版	Oxford University Press, 2000
主題	Biography & Autobiography / MusicBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / PhilosophersLiterary Criticism / European / FrenchPhilosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
ISBN	01928227569780192822758
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZinPjKdL9mEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

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 and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. The book vividly illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the writing of autobiography: defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment. Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource of language, to convey what he despairs of putting into words: the personal quality of one's own existence.