The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva

The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Nabu Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2014-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781295843817

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Confessions

Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780192822758

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.

Discourse on the Sciences and Arts

Discourse on the Sciences and Arts
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge. Contains the entire First Discourse, contemporary attacks on it, Rousseau's replies to his critics, and his summary of the debate in his preface to Narcissus. A number of these texts have never before been available in English. The First Discourse and Polemics demonstrate the continued relevance of Rousseau's thought. Whereas his critics argue for correction of the excesses and corruptions of knowledge and the sciences as sufficient, Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge.