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The Confessions

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a pioneering autobiographical work where Rousseau recounts his life with remarkable honesty and introspection. He explores his personal experiences, thoughts, and emotions, reflecting deeply on his formative years and relationships. This memoir offers an intimate glimpse into the life of one of the Enlightenment’s most influential thinkers.
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You might enjoy this introspective work if you are intrigued by the exploration of human nature and personal revelations. As one of the first modern autobiographies, it offers a candid glimpse into the life and thoughts of a significant Enlightenment thinker, resonating with those who appreciate philosophical depth and historical context.

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The Confessions

Argues against the inequality the author believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. This title features the first fifty-three years of his radical life, including his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood; and the development of his philosophical and political ideas.

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Rousseau's autobiography provides a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment.

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 civilised society. In his Confessions, he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy. From his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood, through the development of his philosophical and political ideas, his struggle against the French authorities, and his exile from France following the publication of Émile.

Depicting a life of adventure, persecution, paranoia, and brilliant achievement, The Confessions is a landmark work by one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment. It was a direct influence upon the work of Proust, Goethe, and Tolstoy, among others.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140440331

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 March 1973

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by J. Cohen

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 414g

Pages: 608

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About the Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712. Abandoned by his father at the age of ten, he left the city in 1728 and from then on wandered Europe, searching for happiness. In 1732 he settled for eight years at Les Charmettes, remembered in his book Confessions. In 1741 he moved to Paris where he met Diderot, in the meantime fathering five children, all of whom he abandoned. His corwning achievement is his work of political philosophy, The Social Contract, which was published in 1762. He died in 1778. J.M. Cohen, a Cambridge graduate, was the author of many Penguin translations, including versions of Cervantes, Rabelais and Montaigne. He died in 1989.

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