The Confessions (Classics of World Literature) - Softcover

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

 
9781853264658: The Confessions (Classics of World Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1853264652 ISBN 13: 9781853264658
Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1853264652
ISBN 13 
9781853264658
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
672
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780140440331: The Confessions (Penguin Classics)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  014044033X ISBN 13:  9780140440331
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1973
Softcover